John 5:5-15

⁵A certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years.

⁶When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had already been sick for a long time, He asked him, “Do you want to be made well?”

⁷The sick man answered, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, another steps down before me.”

⁸Jesus told him, “Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk.”

⁹Immediately, the man was made well, took up his mat, and walked. That was on the Sabbath day.

¹⁰Therefore the Jews were telling him who was cured, “It’s the Sabbath, and it isn’t legal for you to carry your mat.”

¹¹He answered them, “He who made me well told me, ‘Take up your mat and walk.’”

¹²Then they asked him, “Who told you to ‘Take up your mat and walk’?”

¹³The man who had been healed didn’t know who it was, because Jesus had disappeared into the crowd.

¹⁴Later, Jesus found him in the temple and told him, “See, you have been made well! Don’t sin any more, so that nothing worse happens to you.”

¹⁵The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.