John 5:1-13 ▼

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.

11 He aunswered them: He that made me whole, saide vnto me, take vp thy bedde and walke.

12 Then asked they hym: What man is that which sayde vnto thee, take vp thy bedde, and walke?

13 And he that was healed, wyste not who it was. For Iesus had gotten him selfe awaye, because that there was prease of people in that place.