João 5

The Healing at Bethesda

1 After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

2 Now in Jerusalem, by the Sheep Gate, there is a pool which in *5:2 I.e., Jewish AramaicHebrew is called *5:2 Some early mss Bethsaida or BethzathaBethesda, having five *5:2 Or colonnades (with roofs)porticoes. 3 In these porticoes lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, limping, or*5:3 Or had shrunken limbsparalyzed.*5:3 Late mss add the following as the remainder of v 3, and v 4: paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the waters; for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool and stirred up the water; whoever then first stepped in after the stirring up of the water was made well from whatever disease with which he was afflicted5 Now a man was there who had been *5:5 Lit in his sicknessill for thirty-eight years. 6 Jesus, upon seeing this man lying there and knowing that he had already been in that condition for a long time, *said to him, "Do you want to get well?"7 The sick man answered Him, "Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I am coming, another steps down before me." 8 Jesus *said to him, "Get up, pick up your pallet and walk."9 Immediately the man became well, and picked up his pallet and began to walk.

Now it was a Sabbath on that day.