A Paralytic Is Healed

5 After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool called in AramaicBethzatha,[fn] which has five porticoes. 3 In these were lying a large number of those who were sick, blind, lame, paralyzed.[fn] 5 And a certain man was there who had been thirty-eight years in his sickness. 6 Jesus, when he[fn] saw this one lyingthere and knew that he had been sick[fn] a long time already, said to him, “Do you want to become well?” 7 The one who was sick answered him, “Sir, I do not have anyone that, whenever the water is stirred up, could put me into the pool. But while[fn] I am coming, another goes down before me.” 8 Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk!” 9 And immediately the man became well and picked up his mat and began to walk.[fn] (Now it was the Sabbath on that day.)

10 So the Jews were saying to the one who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not permitted for you to pick up the mat!”[fn] 11 But he answered them, “The one who made me well—that one said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk!’ ” 12 So they asked him,[fn] “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick upyour mat[fn] and walk?’ ” 13 But the one who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn while[fn] a crowd was in the place.