John 5:1-13 - A Paralytic Is Healed

¹ After that there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ² And there is at Jerusalem, by the slaughterhouse, a pool called in the Hebrew tongue, Bethesda; having five porches, ³ in which lay a great multitude of sick folk: of blind, halt, and withered, waiting for the moving of the water. ⁴ For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool and troubled the water. Whosoever then first after the stirring of the water stepped in, was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.

⁵ And a certain man was there, which had been diseased thirty eight years. ⁶ When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he now long time had been diseased, he said unto him, "Wilt thou be made whole?"

⁷ The sick answered him, "Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool. But in the meantime, while I am about to come, another steppeth down before me."

⁸ And Jesus said unto him, "Rise, take up thy bed, and walk." ⁹ And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and went. And the same day was the Sabbath day. ¹⁰ The Jews therefore said unto him that was made whole, "It is the Sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed."

¹¹ He answered them, "He that made me whole, said unto me, 'Take up thy bed, and get thee hence.'"

¹² Then asked they him, "What man is that which said unto thee, 'Take up thy bed and walk?'" ¹³ And he that was healed, wist not who it was. For Jesus had gotten himself away, because that there was press of people in the place.