John 5:2-17

²and there is in Jerusalem by the sheep -gate a pool that is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches,

³in these were lying a great multitude of the ailing, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water,

⁴for a messenger at a set time was going down in the pool, and was troubling the water, the first then having gone in after the troubling of the water, became whole of whatever sickness he was held.

⁵and there was a certain man there being in ailment thirty and eight years,

⁶him Jesus having seen lying, and having known that he is already a long time, he saith to him, 'Dost thou wish to become whole?'

⁷The ailing man answered him, 'Sir, I have no man, that, when the water may be troubled, he may put me into the pool, and while I am coming, another doth go down before me.'

⁸Jesus saith to him, 'Rise, take up thy couch, and be walking;'

⁹and immediately the man became whole, and he took up his couch, and was walking, and it was a sabbath on that day,

¹⁰the Jews then said to him that hath been healed, 'It is a sabbath; it is not lawful to thee to take up the couch.'

¹¹He answered them, 'He who made me whole — that one said to me, Take up thy couch, and be walking;'

¹²they questioned him, then, 'Who is the man who is saying to thee, Take up thy couch and be walking?'

¹³But he that was healed had not known who he is, for Jesus did move away, a multitude being in the place.

¹⁴After these things, Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said to him, 'Lo, thou hast become whole; sin no more, lest something worse may happen to thee.'

¹⁵The man went away, and told the Jews that it is Jesus who made him whole,

¹⁶and because of this were the Jews persecuting Jesus, and seeking to kill him, because these things he was doing on a sabbath.

¹⁷And Jesus answered them, 'My Father till now doth work, and I work;'