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- After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
- Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porticoes.
- In these lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, and withered, [waiting for the moving of the waters;
- for 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.]
- A man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.
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- Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews.
- Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.
- Here a great number of disabled people used to lie--the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.
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- One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
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- When 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?"
- The sick man answered Him, "Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I am coming, another steps down before me."
- Jesus said to him, "Get up, pick up your pallet and walk."
- Immediately the man became well, and picked up his pallet and began to walk. Now it was the Sabbath on that day.
- So the Jews were saying to the man who was cured, "It is the Sabbath, and it is not permissible for you to carry your pallet."
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- When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"
- "Sir," the invalid replied, "I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me."
- Then Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk."
- At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath,
- and so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat."
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- But he answered them, "He who made me well was the one who said to me, 'Pick up your pallet and walk.'"
- They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Pick up your pallet and walk'?"
- But the man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away while there was a crowd in that place.
- Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, "Behold, you have become well; do not sin anymore, so that nothing worse happens to you."
- The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
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- But he replied, "The man who made me well said to me, 'Pick up your mat and walk.' "
- So they asked him, "Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?"
- The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.
- Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you."
- The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
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- For this reason the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.
- But He answered them, "My Father is working until now, and I Myself am working."
- For this reason therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.
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- So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews persecuted him.
- Jesus said to them, "My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too, am working."
- For this reason the Jews tried all the harder to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
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