You say why don’t I heal that little girl? If it was me, I would. See? Why’d He leave…Why’d He pass by that little spastic child, and those crippled, and lame, and halt, there at the pool of Bethesda, and moved right on by them, passed up, many of them standing there, the Bible said halt, lame, blind. What about that blind man screaming for mercy to put him in the pool, and Jesus come right by him, and He was Emmanuel. Is that right? What about that lame, afflicted, great multitude, maybe ten thousand of them laying there, screaming for somebody to get them in the water. Why did He—why didn’t He heal them? He passed right by. He had compassion; He was the Son of God. Is that right? He went right over to a…one man, that had diabetes or something, heart trouble, or some disease he’d had for thirty-eight years. He could walk. He said, “While I’m coming down at the water, somebody else steps before me.” Is that right? And He healed that one man, and walked away and left that multitude. How many knows that’s the Bible? Raise your hands. And when the Jew’s questioned Him, He said, “I can do nothing, till the Father shows Me.”

Who Has Believed Our Report?, 1952-07-20, Hammond, IN, §35