John 5:5-10

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?”

⁷“I have no one, Sir,” the sick man answered, “to put me into the bath when there is a troubling of the water, and, while I am getting to it, someone else steps down before me.”

⁸“Stand up,” said Jesus, “take up your mat, and walk.”

⁹The man was cured immediately, and took up his mat and began walking.

¹⁰Now it was the Sabbath. So the religious authorities said to the man who had been cured, “This is the Sabbath; you must not carry your mat.”