John 5:1-13 - A Paralytic Is Healed
1 After this was the feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem, near the sheep gate, a pool, called, in the Hebrew tongue, Bethesda, with five porches. 3 In these lay a great multitude of sick persons, blind, lame, withered, who waited for the moving of the water. 4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and stirred the water. Then he who entered first after the motion of the water, was cured of whatever disease he had.
5 And a certain man was there, who had been sick thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying, and knew that he had been already a long time in that condition, he said to him: Do you wish to be restored to health?
7 The sick man answered him: Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred; but while I am coming, another goes down before me.
8 Jesus said to him: Arise, take up your bed and walk. 9 And the man was immediately restored to health; and he took up his bed and walked. And that day was the sabbath. 10 The Jews, therefore, said to him that was cured: It is the sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed.
11 He answered them: He that restored me to health said to me, Take up your bed and walk.
12 Then they asked him: Who is he that said to you, Take up your bed and walk? 13 But he that had been restored to health knew not who he was; for Jesus had withdrawn himself, because a multitude was in the place.