John 5:2-9

2By the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there is a pool, called Bethesda in Aramaic, which has five colonnades.

3Within these lay a large number of the disabled — blind, lame, and paralyzed.

5One man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years.

6When Jesus saw him lying there and realized he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to get well?”

7“Sir,” 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.”

8“Get up,” Jesus told him, “pick up your mat and walk.”

9Instantly the man got well, picked up his mat, and started to walk. Now that day was the Sabbath,