The Third Sign: Healing the Sick

After this, a Jewish festival took place, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.(A) By the Sheep Gate(B) in Jerusalem there is a pool, called Bethesda[a] in Aramaic, which has five colonnades. Within these lay a large number of the disabled—blind, lame, and paralyzed.[b]

One man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and realized he had already been there a long time,(C) he said to him, “Do you want to get well?”

“Sir,”(D) the disabled man answered, “I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, someone goes down ahead of me.”

“Get up,” Jesus told him, “pick up your mat and walk.” Instantly the man got well, picked up his mat, and started to walk.

Now that day was the Sabbath,(E) 10 and so the Jews(F) said to the man who had been healed, “This is the Sabbath.(G) The law prohibits you from picking up your mat.”

11 He replied, “The man who made me well(H) told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’

12 “Who is this man who told you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk’?” they asked. 13 But the man who was healed did not know who it was,(I) because Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.[c]

14 After this, Jesus found him in the temple(J) and said to him, “See, you are well. Do not sin anymore, so that something worse doesn’t happen to you.” 15 The man went and reported to the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.(K)

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Notas al pie

  1. 5:2 Some mss read Bethzatha; other mss read Bethsaida
  2. 5:3 Some mss include vv. 3b-4:—waiting for the moving of the water, because an angel would go down into the pool from time to time and stir up the water. Then the first one who got in after the water was stirred up recovered from whatever ailment he had.
  3. 5:13 Lit slipped away, there being a crowd in that place

After meta this houtos there was eimi a festival heortē of the ho Jews Ioudaios, and kai Jesus Iēsous went up anabainō to eis Jerusalem Hierosolyma. Now de in en · ho Jerusalem Hierosolyma by epi the ho Sheep probatikos Gate there is eimi a pool kolymbēthra, in Hebrew Hebraisti · ho called epilegō Bethesda, having echō five pente covered stoa colonnades . In en these houtos lay katakeimai a number plēthos of ho disabled astheneō people blind typhlos, lame chōlos, and paralyzed xēros. One tis man anthrōpos who was eimi · de there ekei had been echō an invalid astheneia for thirty-eight triakonta · kai years etos. · ho When Jesus Iēsous saw him houtos · ho lying katakeimai there and kai learned ginōskō that hoti he had echō been in that condition for a long polys time chronos already ēdē, he said legō to him autos, “ Do you want thelō to be ginomai healed hygiēs?” The ho sick man astheneō answered apokrinomai him autos, “ Sir kyrios, I have echō no ou one anthrōpos to hina put ballō me egō into eis the ho pool kolymbēthra when hotan the ho water hydōr is stirred tarassō up , but de while en hos I egō am on my way erchomai someone allos else steps down katabainō ahead pro of me egō.” Jesus Iēsous said legō to him autos, · ho Get egeirō up , pick airō up · ho your sy mat krabattos and kai walk peripateō.” And kai immediately eutheōs the ho man anthrōpos was ginomai healed hygiēs, and kai he picked airō up · ho his autos mat krabattos and kai started walking peripateō. Now de that ekeinos day hēmera was eimi a Sabbath sabbaton. · ho 10 So oun the ho Jews Ioudaios said legō to the ho man who had been healed therapeuō, “ It is eimi the Sabbath sabbaton, and kai it is not ou lawful for you sy to carry airō · ho your sy mat krabattos. 11 But de he ho answered apokrinomai them autos, “ The ho man ekeinos who made poieō me egō well hygiēs said legō to me egō, ‘ Pick airō up · ho your sy mat krabattos and kai walk peripateō.’” 12 They questioned erōtaō him autos, “ Who tis is eimi the ho man anthrōpos who ho said legō to you sy, ‘ Pick airō up your mat and kai walk peripateō’?” 13 However de, the ho man who had been healed iaomai did not ou know oida who tis it was eimi, · ho for gar Jesus Iēsous had slipped ekneuō away , there being eimi a crowd ochlos in en that ho place topos. 14 Later meta on houtos Jesus Iēsous found heuriskō him autos · ho in en the ho temple hieron and kai said legō to him autos, “ See ide, you have been ginomai healed hygiēs! Do hamartanō not sin hamartanō any mēketi longer , so hina that nothing worse cheirōn happens ginomai to you sy.” 15 The ho man anthrōpos went aperchomai away and kai told anangellō the ho Jews Ioudaios that hoti it was eimi Jesus Iēsous who ho had made poieō him autos well hygiēs.

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