John 5:1-6

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

²Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, “Bethesda”, having five porches.

³In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralysed, waiting for the moving of the water;

⁴for an angel went down at certain times into the pool and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had.

⁵A certain man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.

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