John 5:1-10

¹After these things there was the feast of the Jews, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

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

³In them a large number of sick people were lying—blind, lame, paralyzed—waiting for the moving of the water;

⁴because an angel would go down from time to time into the pool and stir up the water—then the first one to get in after the stirring of the water became well of whatever disease that was holding him.

⁵Now there was a certain man there who had been sick for 38 years.

⁶Seeing this man lying there and knowing that he had already been sick a long time, Jesus says to him, “Do you want to get well?”

⁷The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to throw me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I am coming another gets in before me.”

⁸Jesus says to him, “Get up, pick up your pallet and walk!”

⁹Immediately the man became well and picked up his pallet and started to walk!

¹⁰But that day was a Sabbath, so the Jews said to the one who had been healed: “It's the Sabbath! You aren't allowed to carry the pallet.”