John 5:1-9

Anderson(i) 1 After this was the feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem, near the sheep gate, a pool, called, in the Hebrew tongue, Bethesda, with five porches. 3 In these lay a great multitude of sick persons, blind, lame, withered, who waited for the moving of the water. 4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and stirred the water. Then he who entered first after the motion of the water, was cured of whatever disease he had. 5 And a certain man was there, who had been sick thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying, and knew that he had been already a long time in that condition, he said to him: Do you wish to be restored to health? 7 The sick man answered him: Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred; but while I am coming, another goes down before me. 8 Jesus said to him: Arise, take up your bed and walk. 9 And the man was immediately restored to health; and he took up his bed and walked. And that day was the sabbath.