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.