John 5:6-8

Living Bible

⁶ When Jesus saw him and knew how long he had been ill, he asked him, “Would you like to get well?”

⁷ “I can’t,” the sick man said, “for I have no one to help me into the pool at the movement of the water. While I am trying to get there, someone else always gets in ahead of me.”

⁸ Jesus told him, “Stand up, roll up your sleeping mat and go on home!”