The Healing at the Pool on the Sabbath (JHN 5:1-17)

[5:1] After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

[5:2] Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades.

[5:3] In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed.

[5:5] One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

[5:6] When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?”

[5:7] The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.”

[5:8] Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.”

[5:9] And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath.

[5:10] So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed.”

[5:11] But he answered them, “The man who healed me, that man said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and walk.’”

[5:12] They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?”

[5:13] Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place.

[5:14] Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you.”

[5:15] The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him.

[5:16] And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

[5:17] But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”