John 5: 1 -
16
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| 1 |
After this there was a feast of the Jews,
and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. |
| 2 |
Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate
a pool, in Hebrew called Beth-za'tha, which has five porticoes.
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| 3 |
In these lay a multitude of invalids, blind,
lame, paralyzed. |
| 5 |
One man was there, who had been ill for
thirty-eight years. |
| 6 |
When Jesus saw him and knew that he had been
lying there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be healed?"
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| 7 |
The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no
man to put me into the pool when the water is troubled, and while I am going
another steps down before me." |
| 8 |
Jesus said to him, "Rise, take up your
pallet, and walk." |
| 9 |
And at once the man was healed, and he took
up his pallet and walked. Now that day was the sabbath. |
| 10 |
So the Jews said to the man who was cured,
"It is the sabbath, it is not lawful for you to carry your pallet."
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| 11 |
But he answered them, "The man who healed me
said to me, `Take up your pallet, and walk.'" |
| 12 |
They asked him, "Who is the man who said to
you, `Take up your pallet, and walk'?" |
| 13 |
Now the man who had been healed did not know
who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place.
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| 14 |
Afterward, Jesus found him in the temple,
and said to him, "See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse befall
you." |
| 15 |
The man went away and told the Jews that it
was Jesus who had healed him. |
| 16 |
And this was why the Jews persecuted Jesus,
because he did this on the sabbath. |
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