²In Jerusalem there is a pool with five covered porches, which is called Bethesda ⁿ in the Hebrew language. ⁿ This pool is near the Sheep Gate. ³Many sick people were lying on the porches beside the pool. Some were blind, some were crippled, and some were paralyzed, and they waited for the water to move. ⁴Sometimes an angel of the Lord came down to the pool and stirred up the water. After the angel did this, the first person to go into the pool was healed from any sickness he had. ⁿ ⁵A man was lying there who had been sick for thirty-eight years. ⁶When Jesus saw the man and knew that he had been sick for such a long time, Jesus asked him, “Do you want to be well?”

⁷The sick man answered, “Sir, there is no one to help me get into the pool when the water starts moving. While I am coming to the water, someone else always gets in before me.”

⁸Then Jesus said, “Stand up. Pick up your mat and walk.” ⁹And immediately the man was well; he picked up his mat and began to walk.

The day this happened was a Sabbath day.

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Footnotes

nBethesda Some Greek copies read “Bethzatha” or “Bethsaida,” different names for the pool of Bethesda.
nHebrew language Or Aramaic, the languages of many people in this region in the first century.
nand … had Some Greek copies do not contain all or most of the bracketed text.