The Pool of Bethesda

5 Some time later 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 with five covered colonnades, which in Hebrew[fn] is called Bethesda.[fn] 3 On these [ walkways ][fn] lay a great number of the sick, [the] blind, [the] lame, [and the] paralyzed.[fn]

5 One man there had been [an] invalid [for] thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying [there] and realized that he had spent a long time [in this condition], He asked him, “Do you want to get well?”

7 “Sir,” the invalid replied “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am on my way, someone else goes in before me.”

8 Then Jesus told him, “Get up, pick up your mat, and walk.”

9 Immediately the man was made well, and he picked up his mat and began to walk. Now this happened on the Sabbath day, 10 so the Jews said to the [man] who had been healed, “This is [the] Sabbath! It is unlawful for you to carry your mat.”

11 But he answered “The [man who] made me well told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’ ”

12 “Who is [this] man who told you to pick [it] up and walk?” they asked

13 But the [man who] was healed {did} not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away [while the] crowd was there.

14 Afterward Jesus found [the man] at the temple and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Stop sinning, or something worse may happen to you.”

15 [And] the man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.