1After these things there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.2Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool called in Hebrew Bethesda, which has five porticoes.3In these a multitude of those who were weak—blind, lame, and withered—lay, waiting for the movement of the water.4For an angel would go down into the pool from time to time and stir the water; therefore the first one to step in after the stirring of the water became well from whatever disease held him.5And a certain man was there who had been in his weakness for thirty-eight years.6When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be made well?"7The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another goes down before me."8Jesus said to him, "Get up, pick up your bed, and walk."9Immediately the man was made well, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath.10So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry your bed."11But he answered them, "The man who made me well said to me, 'Pick up your bed and walk.'"12They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Pick up your bed and walk'?"13Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away, since a crowd was in the place.14Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, "See, you are well! Sin no more, lest something worse happen to you."15The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.