John 5:1-6

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

²Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem, there is a pool, which is called Bethesda in Hebrew. It’s surrounded by five covered colonnades.

³In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water,

⁴for an angel went down from time to time into the pool and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made well of whatever disease that person had.

⁵A certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years.

⁶When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had already been sick for a long time, He asked him, “Do you want to be made well?”