⁵One man, who had been sick for 38 years, was lying there. ⁶Jesus saw the man lying there and knew that he had been sick for a long time. So Jesus asked the man, “Would you like to get well?”

⁷The sick man answered Jesus, “Sir, I don’t have anyone to put me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I’m trying to get there, someone else steps into the pool ahead of me.”

⁸Jesus told the man, “Get up, pick up your cot, and walk.” ⁹The man immediately became well, picked up his cot, and walked.

That happened on a day of rest—a holy day. ¹⁰So the Jews told the man who had been healed, “This is a day of rest—a holy day. You’re not allowed to carry your cot today.”

¹¹The man replied, “The man who made me well told me to pick up my cot and walk.”

¹²The Jews asked him, “Who is the man who told you to pick it up and walk?” ¹³But the man who had been healed didn’t know who Jesus was. (Jesus had withdrawn from the crowd.)

¹⁴Later, Jesus met the man in the temple courtyard and told him, “You’re well now. Stop sinning so that something worse doesn’t happen to you.”

¹⁵The man went back to the Jews and told them that Jesus was the man who had made him well.

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