And in Saint John 5:19, when He passed by a pool of Bethesda, and there laid a great multitude of crippled, impotent folks, and He went through that crowd of people, and healed a man over there which was laying on a pallet, that we would call it today a little pallet laying on the floor, maybe something like the lady is laying there on the lady’s lap. He—He—He healed them—or healed him. Now, the strange thing was, that He passed those people who were lame, halt, blind, and withered, and went right over to where this man was on the pallet, and healed him, and then went on. And look at the question. When He said He knew, Jesus knew he was laying there and knew that he had been a long time in this state, ’cause he’d had this disease, maybe kidney trouble, or diabetes, TB. It was a retired disease because he’d had it for thirty-eight years. And anything that’s seriously, cancer or something, would a killed him right away. So that it was—it was something that was—been lingered for years. And when He went over and healed him, why, He went away and left all that multitude of people that was lame, and blind, and halt, and withered.

Jesus Christ the Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever, 1953-02-15, Tallahassee, FL, §9