John 5:1-10 ▼

1 After this, was there a feast day of the Iewes, and Iesus went vp to Hierusalem.

2 And there is at Hierusalem by the sheepe market, a poole, which is called in the Hebrue tonge Bethesda, hauyng fyue porches.

3 In which lay a great multitude of sicke folke, of blynde, halt, & wythered, waytyng for the mouyng of the water.

4 For an Angel went downe at a certayne season into the poole, and stirred the water: Whosoeuer then firste after the stirring of the water stepped in, was made whole of whatsoeuer disease he hadde.

5 And a certaine man was there, which had ben diseased thirtie & eyght yeres.

6 When Iesus sawe hym lye, & knewe that he nowe long tyme had ben diseased, he sayth vnto hym: Wylt thou be made whole?

7 The sicke man aunswered him: Sir, I haue no man whe the water is troubled to put me into the poole: But in the meane time, while I am about to come, another steppeth downe before me.

8 Iesus saith vnto him: Ryse, take vp thy bedde, and walke.

9 And immediatly the man was made whole, and toke vp his bedde, & walked. And the same day was the Sabboth.

10 The Iewes therfore sayde vnto hym that was made whole: It is the Sabboth day, it is not lawfull for thee to carie thy bedde.