John 5:1-10 ▼

1 After this, a Jewish festival took place, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

2 By the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there is a pool, called Bethesda in Aramaic, which has five colonnades.

3 Within these lay a large number of the disabled—blind, lame, and paralyzed.

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5 One man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years.

6 When Jesus saw him lying there and realized he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to get well? ”

7 “Sir,” the disabled man answered, “I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, someone goes down ahead of me.”

8 “Get up,” Jesus told him, “pick up your mat and walk.”

9 Instantly the man got well, picked up his mat, and started to walk. Now that day was the Sabbath,

10 and so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “This is the Sabbath. The law prohibits you from picking up your mat.”