John 5:1-6

¹Sometime after this there was a Jewish Festival; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

²There is in Jerusalem, near the sheep-gate, a bath with five colonnades around it. It is called in Hebrew ‘Bethesda.’

³In these colonnades a large number of sick people were lying — blind, lame, and crippled.

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

⁶Jesus saw the man lying there, and, finding that he had been in this state a long time, said to him, “Do you wish to be cured?”