In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water;

 Here is the great and threatening truth. What had been the greatest privilege of the Jews had become their greatest condemnation. No one could condemn a man who had never had a chance. But knowledge had been given to the Jews; and the knowledge they had failed to use had become their condemnation. Responsibility is always the other side of privilege. 