John 5:2-9

2Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool called Bethzatha in Aramaic, which has five covered walkways.

3A great number of sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed people were lying in these walkways.

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

6When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized that the man had been disabled a long time already, he said to him, “Do you want to become well?”

7The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get into the water, someone else goes down there before me.”

8Jesus said to him, “Stand up! Pick up your mat and walk.”

9Immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his mat and started walking. (Now that day was a Sabbath.)