John 5:1-13 - A Paralytic Is Healed

¹ After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ² Now in Jerusalem near the sheep-market there is a public bath which in Hebrew is named Beth-zatha. It has five doorways. ³ In these doorways there were a great number of people with different diseases: some unable to see, some without the power of walking, some with wasted bodies. ⁴ This verse ommitted from translation

⁵ One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. ⁶ When Jesus saw him there on the floor it was clear to him that he had been now a long time in that condition, and so he said to the man, Is it your desire to get well?

⁷ The ill man said in answer, Sir, I have nobody to put me into the bath when the water is moving; and while I am on the way down some other person gets in before me.

⁸ Jesus said to him, Get up, take your bed and go. ⁹ And the man became well straight away, and took up his bed and went. Now that day was the Sabbath. ¹⁰ So the Jews said to the man who had been made well, It is the Sabbath; and it is against the law for you to take up your bed.

¹¹ He said to them, But he who made me well, said to me, Take up your bed and go.

¹² Then they put to him the question: Who is the man who said to you, Take it up and go? ¹³ Now he who had been made well had no knowledge who it was, Jesus having gone away because of the number of people who were in that place.