John 5:1-13 - A Paralytic Is Healed

¹ After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ² Now there is in Jerusalem a pool near the Sheep-gate, called in the Hebrew, Bethesda. ³ It has five colonnades. In these there used to lie a great crowd of sick people??lind, lame, paralyzed. ⁴ OMITTED TEXT.

⁵ And there was one man there for thirty-eight years in his infirmity. ⁶ When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to get well?"

⁷ "Sir," answered the sick man, "I have no man to put me into the pool whenever the water is troubled; and while I am trying to come, some one else steps down before me."

⁸ "Rise," said Jesus, "take up your bed and go walking away." ⁹ Instantly the man became well, and he took up his bed and started to walk. Now it was Sabbath on that day; ¹⁰ so the Jews kept saying to the man who had been cured. "It is the Sabbath Day; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed."

¹¹ He replied, "The man who healed me told me to take up my bed and walk."

¹² "Who is it," they asked, "that said to you, 'take up your bed and go walking away'?" ¹³ But he who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had moved away, as there was a crowd in that place.