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Jesus Heals at Bethesda

John 5:1-15

Chapter 5

¹ After these things there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ² But there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Pool the one called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porticoes. ³ A multitude of the sick, blind, lame, and withered lay in these. ⁵ And a certain man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years. 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 become healthy?" ⁷ "Sir," the sick man answered, "I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am on my way, someone else goes down ahead of me." ⁸ Jesus says to him, "Rise, take up your mat, and walk." ⁹ Immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his mat and walked. But it was the Sabbath that day. ¹⁰ So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry your mat." ¹¹ But he answered them, "The one who made me healthy said to me, 'Take up your pallet and walk.'" ¹² So they asked him, "Who is the man who told you, 'Pick it up and walk'?" ¹³ But the one who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there. ¹⁴ After these things Jesus finds him in the temple and said to him, "See, you have become healthy. Sin no more, so that something worse may not happen to you." ¹⁵ The man went away and told the Jews that Jesus was the one who had made him well.