John 5:5-18

5A man was there who had been 1ill for thirty-eight years. 6When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had already been a long time in that condition, He said to him, “Do you wish to get well?” 7The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when 2the water is stirred up, but while I am coming, another steps down before me.” 8Jesus said to him, “3Get up, pick up your pallet and walk.” 9Immediately the man became well, and picked up his pallet and began to walk.

4Now it was the Sabbath on that day. 10So 5the Jews were saying to the man who was cured, “It is the Sabbath, and 6it is not permissible for you to carry your pallet.” 11But he answered them, “He who made me well was the one who said to me, ‘Pick up your pallet and walk.’” 12They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your pallet and walk’?” 13But the man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away while there was a crowd in that place. 14Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “Behold, you have become well; do not 7sin anymore, 8so that nothing worse happens to you.” 15The man went away, and told 9the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. 16For this reason 10the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath. 17But He answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I Myself am working.” 18For this reason therefore 11the Jews 12were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, 13making Himself equal with God.