John 5:1–9

THE THIRD SIGN: HEALING THE SICK

5After this, a Jewish festival took place, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.^{z 2}By the Sheep Gate^aa in Jerusalem there is a pool, called Bethesda^G in Aramaic, which has five colonnades. ³Within these lay a large number of the disabled—blind, lame, and paralyzed.

⁵One man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years. ⁶When Jesus saw him lying there and realized he had already been there a long time,^ab he said to him, “Do you want to get well?”

⁷“Sir,”^ac the disabled man answered, “I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, someone goes down ahead of me.”

⁸“Get up,” Jesus told him, “pick up your mat and walk.” ⁹Instantly the man got well, picked up his mat, and started to walk.

Now that day was the Sabbath,^ad