The Man at the Healing Pool In John 5:2 of the Bible, Jesus is wandering around during a Jewish Festival. He comes to a pool by the sheepgate where people needing healing would lay all day waiting for the water to stir. (Image: JesusWalk.com) " 5 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda [ a ] and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3 Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. [4] [ b ] 5 One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?” 7 “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.” I was pondering this verse, not for
The Sandwich Proverb.
There are several kinds of people.
One type hears you have two sandwiches, invites themselves over for lunch and asks you for a sandwich.
One type hears you have sandwiches invites you to lunch because they want to enjoy your company while they eat their own sandwiches.
Another sees you have two sandwiches, they have a single sandwich so they ask for your two sandwiches so they'll have three sandwiches.
Another had many sandwiches, when you had no sandwiches, they knew you didn't have any sandwiches and never offered you a sandwich and ate all of them. Then years latter someone gives you two sandwiches and since they no longer have any sandwiches, they want one of your sandwiches and boldly ask for one.
Then there is the type who has a sandwich shop, they never offered you a sandwich, but when you finally have two sandwiches, they assume you also have potato salad and chips and a picnic table, so they suddenly become interested in partnering with you, because all they have is a sandwich shop.
There is also the type of person who has two sandwiches that are the same as your two sandwiches, but they believe you only deserve one sandwich or none at all and so they plot ways to take one or both of yours.
There is another type of person too. They had sandwiches when you had none, but they occasionally shared some of their own sandwiches with you, but now they have no sandwiches so you share some of your two sandwiches with them.
Last there is the type who has always had a sandwich, they never lacked any sandwiches so they don't know what its like to be hungry. They don't share their sandwiches, don't expect you to share your sandwiches.