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.”
11“The man who cured me,” he answered, “said to me ‘Take up your mat and walk.’”
John 5
John 5:5-11