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.
4 One man was there, who had been ill for thirty-eight years.
5 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?"
6 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."
7 Jesus said to him, "Rise, take up your pallet, and walk."
8 And at once the man was healed, and he took up his pallet and walked. Now that day was the sabbath.
9 So the Jews said to the man who was cured, "It is the sabbath, it is not lawful for you to carry your pallet."