1 After this the Jews had a Festival holy day, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.2 There is a pool by the sheep-market gate at Jerusalem. It is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethzatha. It has five porches colonnades.3 In these lay a great crowd of sick people, of blind and lame waiting for the water to bubble up.4 Not in older manuscripts.5 A man who had an infirmity for thirty-eight years was present.6 Jesus saw him lying there. He knew that he had been sick for a long time. So he asked him: »Do you want to get well?«7 The sick man replied: »I have no man to put me in the pool when the water is stirred. Others step down before I can go.«8 Jesus said: »Arise pick up your bed and walk.«9 Immediately the man was made whole. He picked up his bed and walked. It happened on the Sabbath day.