John 5:1-10 ▼

1 AFTER these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

2 Now there is at Jerusalem near the sheep-market a pool, called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porticos.

3 In these lay a vast multitude of infirm persons, blind, lame, withered, waiting the motion of the water.

4 For occasionally an angel descended into the pool, and put the water into commotion: he therefore who first stepped in after the commotion of the water became well, under whatever complaint he had laboured.

5 And there was a certain man there, who had a complaint of thirty years standing.

6 Jesus seeing him laid there, and knowing that he had been so for a long while, saith to him, Wilt thou be made sound?

7 The infirm man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is disturbed, to cast me into the pool: but when I am coming, another goeth down before me.

8 Jesus saith to him, Arise, take up thy bed, and walk.

9 And instantly the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked away: and that day was the sabbath.

10 The Jews therefore said to him that was cured, It is the sabbath: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.