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Joh 5:7. Ἀπεκρίθη, answered) He gives no answer as to His wish to be made whole. The surer and the nearer the hope is, the greater is the wish: when the hope is small, the wish becomes dormant.-οὐκ ἔχω, I have not) He was a man very needy, and, as it seems, untutored. See Joh 5:11, notes.-βάλῃ, to put [mittat]) having taken me up quickly to let me down gently.-πρὸ ἐμοῦ, before me) It would have been the part of love, that all the other sick men with one consent should have conceded the first place to him in particular; but all were eager to be made whole themselves. [Would that there were as great an anxiety for the healing of the soul!-V. g.]