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John 5:3-18

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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.”
11He answered them: “The one who made me well—He said to me, ‘Pick up your pallet and walk.’ ”
12So they asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your pallet and walk’?”
13But the man who was cured did not know who it was, because Jesus had disappeared, there being a crowd in the place.
14After these things Jesus found him in the temple and said to him: “See, you are well. Don't sin any more, so that something worse doesn't happen to you.”
15The man went off and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
16So because of this the Jews began persecuting Jesus and trying to kill Him, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.
17But Jesus answered them, “Until now, my Father works, I also work.”
18So because of this they wanted to kill Him all the more, because He was not only breaking the Sabbath but was even saying that God was His own Father, making Himself equal with God!

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