João 5

The Jewish leaders did not like the fact that Jesus healed a paralyzed man on the Sabbath day.

1 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem when the Jews were having another celebration. 2 At one of the gates into the city called the Sheep Gate, there is a pool. In our language we call it Bethzatha. Around the pool were five open areas with roofs over them. 3,4 Many people were lying there. They were people who were blind, lame, or paralyzed.*5:3-4 send down an angel, and the angel would stir the water. Then the first person who got down into the water after the water was stirred would be healed of whatever disease that person had. 5 One of those who was there had been paralyzed for 38 years. 6 Jesus saw him lying there and found out that the man had been like that for a long time. He said to the man, "Do you want to become well?" 7 The paralyzed man replied to him, "Yes, sir, I want to get well, but there is no one to help me get down into the pool when the water is stirred {stirs}. While I am trying to get to the pool, someone else always gets there before me." 8 Jesus said to him, "Get up! Then pick up your mat and walk!" 9 The man immediately was healed. He picked up his mat and started walking!

The day on which this happened was a Jewish day of rest.