John 5:2-9

2Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate, was the pool of Bethesda, with five covered porches.

3Crowds of sick people—blind, lame, or paralyzed—lay on the porches.

5One of the men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years.

6When Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill for a long time, he asked him, “Would you like to get well?”

7“I can’t, sir,” the sick man said, “for I have no one to put me into the pool when the water bubbles up. Someone else always gets there ahead of me.”

8Jesus told him, “Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk!”

9Instantly, the man was healed! He rolled up his sleeping mat and began walking! But this miracle happened on the Sabbath,