^{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.'

^{11 Ref} He answered them, `He who made me whole -- that one said to me, Take up thy couch, and be walking;'