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

2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches.

3 In these lay a multitude of disabled people, blind, lame, paralyzed.

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5 One man who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

6 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been in this condition for a long time, he said to him, »Do you want to be made 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, »Rise, take up your bed, and walk.«

9 And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath.