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

^{2 Ref} and there is in Jerusalem by the sheep-`gate' a pool that is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches,

^{3 Ref} in these were lying a great multitude of the ailing, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water,

⁴ for a messenger at a set time was going down in the pool, and was troubling the water, the first then having gone in after the troubling of the water, became whole of whatever sickness he was held.

^{5 Ref} and there was a certain man there being in ailment thirty and eight years,

^{6 Ref} him Jesus having seen lying, and having known that he is already a long time, he saith to him, `Dost thou wish to become whole?'

^{7 Ref} The ailing man answered him, `Sir, I have no man, that, when the water may be troubled, he may put me into the pool, and while I am coming, another doth go down before me.'

^{8 Ref} Jesus saith to him, `Rise, take up thy couch, and be walking;'

^{9 Ref} and immediately the man became whole, and he took up his couch, and was walking, and it was a sabbath on that day,

^{10 Ref} the Jews then said to him that hath been healed, `It is a sabbath; it is not lawful to thee to take up the couch.'

^{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.