1 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 Now there is in Jerusalem a pool near the Sheep-gate, called in the Hebrew, Bethesda.
3 It has five colonnades. In these there used to lie a great crowd of sick people - blind, lame, paralyzed.
5 And there was one man there for thirty-eight years in his infirmity.
6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to get well?"
7 "Sir," answered the sick man, "I have no man to put me into the pool whenever the water is troubled; and while I am trying to come, some one else steps down before me."
8 "Rise," said Jesus, "take up your bed and go walking away."
9 Instantly the man became well, and he took up his bed and started to walk. Now it was Sabbath on that day;