John 5:1-9

GOD’S WORD Translation

Jesus Cures a Man at the Bethesda Pool

5 Later, Jesus went to Jerusalem for a Jewish festival.

²Near Sheep Gate in Jerusalem was a pool called Bethesda in Hebrew. It had five porches. ³Under these porches a large number of sick people—people who were blind, lame, or paralyzed—used to lie.^[a] ⁵One man, who had been sick for 38 years, was lying there. ⁶Jesus saw the man lying there and knew that he had been sick for a long time. So Jesus asked the man, “Would you like to get well?”

⁷The sick man answered Jesus, “Sir, I don’t have anyone to put me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I’m trying to get there, someone else steps into the pool ahead of me.”

⁸Jesus told the man, “Get up, pick up your cot, and walk.” ⁹The man immediately became well, picked up his cot, and walked.

That happened on a day of rest—a holy day.

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Notas al pie

5:3 Some manuscripts and translations add verses 3b–4: “They would wait for the water to move. People believed that at a certain time an angel from the Lord would go into the pool and stir up the water. The first person who would step into the water after it was stirred up would be cured from whatever disease he had.”