John 5:5–15

⁵One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. ⁶When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be made well?” ⁷The ill man answered him, “Sir,^w I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am making my way someone else steps down ahead of me.” ⁸Jesus said to him, “Stand up, take your mat and walk.”^{* 9}At once the man was made well, and he took up his mat and began to walk.

Now that day was a Sabbath.^{* 10}So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, “It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your mat.”^{* 11}But he answered them, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Take up your mat and walk.’ ” ¹²They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take it up and walk’?” ¹³Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had disappeared in^x the crowd that was there. ¹⁴Later Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you have been made well! Do not sin any more, so that nothing worse happens to you.”^{* 15}The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.