Now there is in Jerusalem a pool near the Sheep-gate, called in the Hebrew, Bethesda.

"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."

And he said to them. "You are from below. I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world.

Then he said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (a word which means "sent"). So the man went and washed his eyes, and came back seeing.

When he had spoken these words, one of the police standing by gave him a blow with his hand, saying as he did so, "Is that the way you answer the high priest?"

saying, "Hail! King of the Jews!" They also gave him blow after blow with their hands.