The Healing at the Pool of Bethesda

5 After this [fn]came the feast of the Jews, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

2 Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called [fn]Bethesda in Hebrew, which has five porticoes. 3 In the porticoes were lying a [fn]great multitude of disabled people, including the blind, the lame, and the [fn]paralyzed, who were waiting for the moving of the water. 4 [fn]For at times an angel would go down into the pool and stir up the water. The first person who stepped in after the water was stirred up was healed of whatever disease he had. 5 One man was there who had been suffering in his disability for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been in that condition for a long time already, he said to him, “Do yoʋ want to be made well?” 7 The disabled man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I am going, another goes down before me.” 8 Jesus said to him, “Rise, pick up yoʋr mat, and walk.” 9 Immediately the man was made well, so he picked up his mat and began to walk.

Now that day was a Sabbath. 10 So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for yoʋ to pick up yoʋr mat.” 11 He answered them, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up yoʋr mat and walk.’ ” 12 So they asked him, “Who is the man who said to yoʋ, ‘Pick [fn]up yoʋr mat and walk’?” 13 But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away, since there was a crowd in that place.

14 After this Jesus found the man in the temple courts and said to him, “Behold, yoʋ have become well; do not sin anymore, lest something worse happen to yoʋ.” 15 Then the man went and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. 16 So the Jews began persecuting Jesus [fn]and seeking to kill him, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. 17 But Jesus responded to them, “My Father is still working even now, and I too am working.” 18 So the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.