John 5:1-13 ▼

1 After these things 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, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porticoes.

3 In these lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, and withered, [waiting for the moving of the waters;

4 for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool and stirred up the water; whoever then first, after the stirring up of the water, stepped in was made well from whatever disease with which he was afflicted].

5 A man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.

6 When Jesus saw him lying [there], and knew that he had already been a long time [in that condition], He said to him, |Do you wish to get well?|

7 The sick man answered Him, |Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I am coming, another steps down before me.|

8 Jesus said to him, |Get up, pick up your pallet and walk.|

9 Immediately the man became well, and picked up his pallet and [began] to walk. Now it was the Sabbath on that day.

10 So the Jews were saying to the man who was cured, |It is the Sabbath, and it is not permissible for you to carry your pallet.|

11 But he answered them, |He who made me well was the one who said to me, 'Pick up your pallet and walk.'|

12 They asked him, |Who is the man who said to you, 'Pick up [your pallet] and walk'?|

13 But the man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away while there was a crowd in [that] place.