^{1 Ref} After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

^{2 Ref} Now in Jerusalem near the sheep-market there is a public bath which in Hebrew is named Beth-zatha. It has five doorways.

^{3 Ref} In these doorways there were a great number of people with different diseases: some unable to see, some without the power of walking, some with wasted bodies.

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^{5 Ref} One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.

^{6 Ref} When Jesus saw him there on the floor it was clear to him that he had been now a long time in that condition, and so he said to the man, Is it your desire to get well?

^{7 Ref} The ill man said in answer, Sir, I have nobody to put me into the bath when the water is moving; and while I am on the way down some other person gets in before me.

^{8 Ref} Jesus said to him, Get up, take your bed and go.

^{9 Ref} And the man became well straight away, and took up his bed and went. Now that day was the Sabbath.

^{10 Ref} So the Jews said to the man who had been made well, It is the Sabbath; and it is against the law for you to take up your bed.