And a certain man was there who had been thirty-eight years in his sickness. Jesus, when he[a] saw this one lying there and knew that he had been sick[b] a long time already, said to him, “Do you want to become well?”

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. John 5:6 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“saw”) which is understood as temporal
  2. John 5:6 The phrase “been sick” is not in the Greek text, but is supplied from the context