The Gospel calls us to fix our eyes on Jesus—the one true man who meets humanity’s deepest need. From the helpless at Bethesda (John 5), to God’s search for an intercessor (Ezekiel 22), to the suffering Saviour before Pilate (John 19), and the man who brings refuge and refreshment (Isaiah 32), this message reveals Jesus as the man we all long for—and the man God has provided.
Bible Scriptures: Darby Translation
John 5:1-7 “5 After these things was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.2 Now there is in Jerusalem, at the sheepgate, a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches.
3 In these lay a multitude of sick, blind, lame, withered, [awaiting the moving of the water.4 For an angel descended at a certain season in the pool and troubled the water. Whoever therefore first went in after the troubling of the water became well, whatever disease he laboured under.]5 But there was a certain man there who had been suffering under his infirmity thirty and eight years.
6 Jesus seeing this [man] lying [there], and knowing that he was [in that state] now a great length of time, says to him, Wouldest thou become well?7 The infirm [man] answered him, Sir, I have not a man, in order, when the water has been troubled, to cast me into the pool; but while I am coming another descends before me.”
Ezekiel 2:22 “30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the fence, and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none.”
John 19:5 “5 (Jesus therefore went forth without, wearing the crown of thorn, and the purple robe.) And he says to them, Behold the man!”
Isaiah 32:2 “ And a man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the storm; as brooks of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a thirsty land.”