John 5:2-16

2Now in Jerusalem there is a pool by the sheep gate, called Bethzatha in Aramaic, which has five porches.

3In these a crowd of invalids was lying around—blind, lame, disabled.

5Now a certain man had been an invalid there for thirty-eight years.

6Seeing him lying there and knowing he had been that way a long time, Yeshua said to him, “Do you want to get well?”

7The invalid answered Him, “Sir, I have nobody to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I’m trying to get in, somebody else steps down before me!”

8Yeshua tells him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk!”

9Immediately, the man was healed! He took up his mat and started walking around. Now that day was Shabbat,

10so Judean leaders were saying to the man who was healed, “It’s Shabbat! It’s not permitted for you to carry your mat.”

11But he answered them, “The man who made me well told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”

12They asked him, “Who is the man who told you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk’?”

13But the man who had been healed didn’t know who it was, for Yeshua had slipped away into the crowd in that place.

14Afterwards, Yeshua finds him in the Temple. He said to him, “Look, you’ve been healed! Stop sinning, so nothing worse happens to you.”

15The man left and told the Judean leaders that it was Yeshua who had made him well.

16Because Yeshua was doing these things on Shabbat, the Judean leaders started persecuting Him.