John 5:1-15

Revised Geneva Translation

5 After that, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went to Jerusalem.

² And there is at Jerusalem, by the sheep gate, a pool called in Hebrew, ‘Bethesda’, having five porches.

³ In these lay a great multitude of sick folk; of blind, lame, and withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

⁴ For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool and stirred the water. Whoever then first stepped in, after the stirring of the water, was made whole of whatever disease he had.

⁵ And a certain man was there who had been diseased 38 years.

⁶ When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had now been diseased a long time, He said to him, “Will you be made whole?”

⁷ The sick one answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred. But while I am coming, another steps down before me.”

⁸ Jesus said to him, “Rise. Take up your bed and walk.”

⁹ And immediately the man was made whole. And he took up his bed and walked. And the same day was the Sabbath.

¹⁰ Therefore, the Jews said to him who was made whole, “It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry your bed.”

¹¹ He answered them, “The One who made me whole, He said to me, ‘Take up your bed and walk.’”

¹² Then they asked him, “What Man is that who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?”

¹³ And the one who was healed did not know Who it was. For Jesus had withdrawn from the multitude that was in that place.

¹⁴ And after that, Jesus found him in the Temple, and said to him, “Behold, you are made whole. Sin no more, lest a worse thing happen to you.”

¹⁵ The man departed and told the Jews that it was Jesus Who had made him whole.