1 Afterward there was a Jewish festival, and Jesus went to Jerusalem.2 Now there is at Jerusalem, nigh the sheep gate, a bath, called, in Hebrew, Bethesda, which has five covered walks.3 In these lay a great number of sick, blind, lame, and palsied people, waiting for the moving of the water,4 (for a messenger at times descended into the bath, and agitated the water; and the first that stepped in, after the agitation of the water, was cured of whatever disease he had.)5 Now, there was one there, who had been diseased thirty-eight years.6 Jesus, who saw him lying, and knew that he had been long ill, said to him, Do you desire to be healed?7 The diseased man answered, Sir, I have no person to put me into the bath, when the water is agitated; but while I am going, another gets down before me.8 Jesus said to him, Arise, take up your couch and walk.9 Instantly the man was healed, and took up his couch and walked.