John 5:5-11

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.’ ”