1 After this the Jews had a Festival holy day, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 There is a pool by the sheep-market gate at Jerusalem. It is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethzatha. It has five porches colonnades.
3 In these lay a great crowd of sick people, of blind and lame waiting for the water to bubble up.
4 Not in older manuscripts.
5 A man who had an infirmity for thirty-eight years was present.
6 Jesus saw him lying there. He knew that he had been sick for a long time. So he asked him: »Do you want to get well?«
7 The sick man replied: »I have no man to put me in the pool when the water is stirred. Others step down before I can go.«
8 Jesus said: »Arise pick up your bed and walk.«
9 Immediately the man was made whole. He picked up his bed and walked. It happened on the Sabbath day.