John 5:1–14

The Healing at Bethesda

¹After 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, ¹waiting 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 disease with which he was afflicted.

⁵A man was there who had been ¹ill for thirty-eight years.

⁶When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had already been a long time in that condition, 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 pallet and walk.”

⁹Immediately the man became well, and picked up his pallet and began to walk.

^aNow it was the Sabbath on that day.

¹⁰So ^athe Jews were saying to the man who was cured, “It is the Sabbath, and ^bit is not permissible for you to carry your pallet.”

¹¹But he answered them, “He who made me well was the one who said to me, ‘Pick up your pallet and walk.’ ”

¹²They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your pallet 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.”