A Paralytic Is Healed

5 After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ² Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool called in Aramaic Bethzatha,^[a] which has five porticoes. ³ In these were lying a large number of those who were sick, blind, lame, paralyzed.^{[b] 5} And a certain man was there who had been thirty-eight years in his sickness. ⁶ Jesus, when he^[c] saw this one lying there and knew that he had been sick^[d] a long time already, said to him, “Do you want to become well?” ⁷ The one who was sick answered him, “Sir, I do not have anyone that, whenever the water is stirred up, could put me into the pool. But while^[e] I am coming, another goes down before me.” ⁸ Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk!” ⁹ And immediately the man became well and picked up his mat and began to walk.^[f] (Now it was the Sabbath on that day.)

¹⁰ So the Jews were saying to the one who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not permitted for you to pick up the mat!”^{[g] 11} But he answered them, “The one who made me well—that one said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk!’” ¹² So they asked him,^[h] “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your mat^[i] and walk?’” ¹³ But the one who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn while^[j] a crowd was in the place.

Equal with God

¹⁴ After these things Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “Look, you have become well! Sin no longer, lest something worse happen to you.” ¹⁵ The man went and reported to the Jews that Jesus was the one who made him well.