John 5:1-18 ▼

1 After these things there was a celebration of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,

2 and there is in Jerusalem by the sheep-[gate] a pool that is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches,

3 in these were lying a great multitude of the ailing, blind, lame, withered, [[waiting for the moving of the water,

4 for a messenger at a set time was going down in the pool, and was troubling the water, the first then having gone in after the troubling of the water, became whole of whatever sickness he was held.]]

5 And there was a certain man there being in ailment thirty-eight years,

6 him Jesus having seen lying, and having known that he is already a long time, He says to him, “Do you wish to become whole?”

7 The ailing man answered Him, “Lord, I have no man, that, when the water may be troubled, he may put me into the pool, and while I am coming, another goes down before me.”

8 Jesus says to him, “Rise, take up your pallet, and be walking”;

9 and immediately the man became whole, and he took up his pallet, and was walking, and it was a Sabbath on that day,

10 the Jews then said to him that has been healed, “It is a Sabbath; it is not lawful to you to take up the pallet.”

11 He answered them, “He who made me whole—that One said to me, Take up your pallet, and be walking”;

12 they questioned him, then, “Who is the Man who is saying to you, Take up your bed and be walking?”

13 But he that was healed had not known who He is, for Jesus moved away, a multitude being in the place.

14 After these things, Jesus finds him in the temple and said to him, “Behold, you have become whole; sin no more, lest something worse may happen to you.”

15 The man went away, and told the Jews that it is Jesus who made him whole,

16 and because of this were the Jews persecuting Jesus, and seeking to kill Him, because these things He was doing on a Sabbath.

17 And Jesus answered them, “My Father works until now, and I work”;

18 because of this, then, were the Jews seeking the more to kill Him, because not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He also called God His own Father, making Himself equal to God.