Rheims New Testament of 1582 Teaches Baptism by Desire Must Be Believed
 
The true sense of this passage as authoritatively defined by the Magisterium of the Catholic Church. It is de fide.

Annotations to Chapter 5 of St. John's Gospel, pg. 168, refers to and explains the curing of the bedridden man at the pool of Bethsaida.
 
You recall, he had nobody to put him into the pond when the "water is troubled". The Lord asked: "Wilt thou be made whole?" and then "Arise, take up thy bed, and walk", and by which pool, it is said "...that these graces of corporal cures given to this water, prefigure the like force of the Sacrament of Baptism of the cure of souls."
 
"Christ by his power of excellency and prerogative could and did heal this poor man that could get nobody to help him into the water, because HE EARNESTLY AND LONG DESIRED THE REMEDY BY GOD APPOINTED, BUT WAS EXCLUDED BY NECESSITY AS OUR LORD SAVETH ALL SUCH AS DIE WITHOUT BAPTISM, IF THEY IN THEIR OWN PERSON EARNESTLY INTENDED, DESIRED, AND SOUGHT FOR THE SAME."