John 5:7-17

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.’”

¹²“Who was it,” they asked, “that said to you ‘Take up your mat and walk’?”

¹³But the man who had been restored did not know who it was; for Jesus had moved away, because there was a crowd there.

¹⁴Afterward Jesus found the man in the Temple Courts, and said to him, “You are cured now; do not sin again, or something worse may happen to you.”

¹⁵The man went away, and told the authorities that it was Jesus who had cured him.

¹⁶And that was why they began to persecute Jesus — because he did things of this kind on the Sabbath.

¹⁷But Jesus replied, “My Father works to this very hour, and I work also.”