John 5:5-17

⁵A certain man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.

⁶When Jesus saw him lying there, and after he realized that he had been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healthy?”

⁷The sick man replied, “Sir, I do not have anyone to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. When I come, another steps down before me.”

⁸Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.”

⁹Immediately the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was a Sabbath.

¹⁰So the Jews said to him who was healed, “It is the Sabbath and you are not permitted to carry your mat.”

¹¹He replied, “He who made me healthy said to me, 'Pick up your mat and walk.'”

¹²They asked him, “Who is the man that said to you, 'Pick it up and walk'?”

¹³However, the one who was healed did not know who it was because Jesus had gone away secretly, for there was a crowd in the place.

¹⁴Afterward, Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you have become healthy! Do not sin anymore, so that something worse will not happen to you.”

¹⁵The man went away and reported to the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him healthy.

¹⁶Now because of these things the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did these things on the Sabbath.

¹⁷Jesus replied to them, “My Father is working even now, and I, too, am working.”