1 AFTER this there was a feast of the Jews and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

2 There is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool which is called in Hebrew Bethesda. Around it are five colonnades.

3 In these lay a multitude of invalids \'97 blind, lame, withered.

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5 There was a man there who had had an infirmity thirty-eight years.

6 Jesus saw this man lying there and perceiving that he had been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to get well?"

7 The sick man answered him, "I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is troubled. While I am coming, some other man gets down before me."

8 Jesus said to him, "Rise, take up your pallet and walk."

9 At once the man became well and took up his pallet and began walking. That day was the Sabbath.