John 5:1-18
The Healing at Bethesda
5After these things there was aa feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2Now there is in Jerusalem by athe sheep gate a pool, which is called bin 1Hebrew 2Bethesda, having five porticoes. 3In these lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, and withered, 1[waiting for the moving of the waters; 4for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool and stirred up the water; whoever then first, after the stirring up of the water, stepped in was made well from whatever sickness with which he was afflicted.] 5And a man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years. 6When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been sick a long time, He *said to him, “Do you wish to get well?” 7The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when athe water is stirred up, but while I am coming, another steps down before me.” 8Jesus *said to him, “aGet up, pick up your mat and walk.” 9And immediately the man became well, and picked up his mat and began to walk. aNow it was the Sabbath on that day. 10So athe Jews were saying to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and bit is not lawful for you to carry your mat.” 11But he answered them, “He who made me well was the one who said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’” 12They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk’?” 13But the man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away while there was a crowd in that place. 14Afterward Jesus *found him in the temple and said to him, “Behold, you have become well; do not asin anymore, bso that nothing worse happens to you.” 15The man went away, and disclosed to athe Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. 16And for this reason athe Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath. 17But He answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I Myself am working.”