John 5:1-7 ▼

1 After this, a Jewish festival took place, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

2 By the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there is a pool, called Bethesda in Aramaic, which has five colonnades.

3 Within these lay a large number of the disabled—blind, lame, and paralyzed.

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

6 When Jesus saw him lying there and realized he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to get well? ”

7 “Sir,” the disabled man answered, “I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, someone goes down ahead of me.”