New American Standard Bible 2020

John 5:2-16

2Now in Jerusalem, by 1the Sheep Gate, there is a pool which 2in 3Hebrew is called 4Bethesda, having five 5porticoes. 3In these porticoes lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, limping, or 6paralyzed.7 5Now a man was there who had been 8ill for thirty-eight years. 6Jesus, upon seeing this man lying there and knowing that he had already been in that condition for a long time, said to him, “Do you want to get well?” 7The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I am coming, another steps down before me.” 8Jesus said to him, “9Get up, pick up your pallet and walk.” 9Immediately the man became well, and picked up his pallet and began to walk.

10Now it was a Sabbath on that day. 10So 11the Jews were saying to the man who was cured, “It is a Sabbath, and 12it 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 it up 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 13sin anymore, 14so that nothing worse happens to you.” 15The man went away, and informed 15the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. 16For this reason 16the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He was doing these things on a Sabbath.

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Notes

1. John 5:2 Neh 3:1, 32; 12:39 ↩
2. John 5:2 John 19:13, 17, 20; 20:16; Acts 21:40; Rev 9:11; 16:16 ↩
3. John 5:2 I.e., Jewish Aramaic ↩
4. John 5:2 Some early mss Bethsaida or Bethzatha ↩
5. John 5:2 Or colonnades (with roofs) ↩
6. John 5:3 Or had shrunken limbs ↩
7. John 5:3 Late mss add the following as the remainder of v 3, and v 4: paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the waters; for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool and stirred up the water; whoever then first stepped in after the stirring up of the water was made well from whatever disease with which he was afflicted ↩
8. John 5:5 Lit in his sickness ↩
9. John 5:8 Matt 9:6; Mark 2:11; Luke 5:24 ↩
10. John 5:9 John 9:14 ↩
11. John 5:10 John 1:19; 5:15, 16, 18 ↩
12. John 5:10 Neh 13:19; Jer 17:21f; Matt 12:2; Luke 6:2; John 7:23; 9:16 ↩
13. John 5:14 Mark 2:5; John 8:11 ↩
14. John 5:14 Ezra 9:14 ↩
15. John 5:15 John 1:19; 5:16, 18 ↩
16. John 5:16 John 1:19; 5:10, 15, 18 ↩

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