⁵One person who was there had been disabled for 38 years. ⁶Jesus saw him lying there. He knew that the man had been in that condition for a long time. So he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”

⁷“Sir,” the disabled man replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when an angel stirs the water up. I try to get in, but someone else always goes down ahead of me.”

⁸Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.”

⁹At once the man was healed. He picked up his mat and walked.

The day this happened was a Sabbath. ¹⁰So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath. The law does not allow you to carry your mat.”

¹¹But he replied, “The one who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’ ”

¹²They asked him, “Who is this fellow? Who told you to pick it up and walk?”

¹³The one who was healed had no idea who it was. Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

¹⁴Later Jesus found him at the temple. Jesus said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning, or something worse may happen to you.” ¹⁵The man went away. He told the Jews it was Jesus who had made him well.

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