John 5:1-7 ▼

1 After this, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

2 Now there is in Jerusalem at the Sheep [Gate] a pool called in Hebrew Bethesda, with five porticoes.

3 In these lay a large number of ill, blind, lame, and crippled. [

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

6 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been ill for a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be well?”

7 The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; while I am on my way, someone else gets down there before me.”