John 5:5-10

5There was a certain man there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.

6When Jesus noticed him lying there [helpless], knowing that he had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to get well?”

7The invalid answered, “Sir, I have no one to put me in the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am coming [to get into it myself], someone else steps down ahead of me.”

8Jesus said to him, “Get up; pick up your pallet and walk.”

9Immediately the man was healed and recovered his strength, and picked up his pallet and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath.

10So the Jews kept saying to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to pick up your pallet [because it is unlawful].”