stepped down into the pool. Precisely; and that is why the first word of Jesus is, ‘Have you the will to be become a healthy man?’ The reply is a feeble excuse. The man has not the will. The law might show the way to life; it was powerless to create the will to live. The will to live, together with the power to live, is given in the word of Christ.” This contrast between Torah and the word of Christ is imported into the story without basis and does not throw light on the story, but in fact obscures