Healing a Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda

5:1 After this1 there was a Jewish feast,2 and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.3 5:2 Now there is4 in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate5 a pool called Bethzatha6 in Aramaic,7 which has five covered walkways.8 5:3 A great number of sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed people were lying in these walkways.9 5:5 Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years.10 5:6 When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized11 that the man12 had been disabled a long time already, he said to him, “Do you want to become well?” 5:7 The sick man answered him, “Sir,13 I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get into the water,14 someone else15 goes down there16 before me.” 5:8 Jesus said to him, “Stand up! Pick up your mat17 and walk.” 5:9 Immediately the man was healed,18 and he picked up his mat19 and started walking. (Now that day was a Sabbath.)20

5:10 So the Jewish leaders21 said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat.”22 5:11 But he answered them, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat23 and walk.’ ” 5:12 They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your mat24 and walk’?”25 5:13 But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped out, since there was a crowd in that place.

5:14 After this Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “Look, you have become well. Don’t sin any more,26 lest anything worse happen to you.” 5:15 The man went away and informed the Jewish leaders27 that Jesus was the one who had made him well.