Jacob's well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down beside the well. It was about noon.

"Sir," the woman said to him, "you have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do you get this living water?

Surely you're not greater than our ancestor Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock."

When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized that the man had been disabled a long time already, he said to him, "Do you want to become well?"

But he answered them, "The man who made me well said to me, 'Pick up your mat and walk.'"

After this Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "Look, you have become well. Don't sin any more, lest anything worse happen to you."

The man went away and informed the Jewish leaders that Jesus was the one who had made him well.

But if a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?