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. |
| 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?" |
| 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." |
| 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| 13 | Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place. |
| 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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