John 5:1–9

After these things was a festival day of the Jews: and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

²Now there is at Jerusalem a pond, called Probatica, which in Hebrew is named Bethsaida, having five porches.

³In these lay a great multitude of sick, of blind, of lame, of withered: waiting for the moving of the water.

⁴And an angel of the Lord descended at certain times into the pond and the water was moved. And he that went down first into the pond after the motion of the water was made whole of whatsoever infirmity he lay under.

⁵And there was a certain man there that had been eight and thirty years under his infirmity.

⁶Him when Jesus had seen lying, and knew that he had been now a long time, he saith to him: Wilt thou be made whole?

⁷The infirm man answered him: Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pond. For whilst I am coming, another goeth down before me.

⁸Jesus saith to him: Arise, take up thy bed and walk.

⁹And immediately the man was made whole: and he took up his bed and walked. And it was the sabbath that day.