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 - blind, lame, paralyzed.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;