5 After all this, there was another Jewish feast, so Yeshua went down to Yerusalem. 2 In Yerusalem at the Sheep Gate, there’s the Bethsaida pool that has five alcoves 3 and a large number of sick, blind, lame, and paralysed people lie there in them. 4 ◘ 5 One man had been there for thirty-eight years, 6 and when Yeshua noticed him and knew that he’d been there for so long, he asked, “Do you want to get better?”

7 “Yes mister,” the sick man answered, “but when the water starts moving, I don’t have a companion to lift me into the pool, so someone else always get there before me.”

8 Then Yeshua said, “Stand up and pick up your bedroll and start walking.” 9 The man immediately stood up, picked up his gear, and started to walk.

However, this was the weekly rest day. 10 [ref]So the religious leaders said to the man, “Hey! It’s against the law for you to carry your bedding on the rest day!”

11 But the man answered, “The man who made me better told me to pick up my bedroll and start walking.”

12 “Oh. Who was it that told you to take that stuff and start walking?”

13 But the man who had been healed didn’t even know who it was, because Yeshua had quickly left when a crowd had formed.

14 Later on, Yeshua found the man in the temple and told him, “Look, you’re better now so don’t go on sinning, because you don’t want anything worse to happen to you.”

15 The man then went and told the leaders that it was Yeshua who had made him better. 16 As a result, the leaders started harassing Yeshua because he had done this on a rest day. 17 But Yeshua just replied, “My father is working today, and so I’m also working.”

18 Because of this, the leaders became determined that he must be put to death—not just because he broke the rules for the rest day, but most of all because he was calling God his own father, thus making himself equal to God!