Jesus Heals a Lame Man

John 5:1-15

1. After this there was a Jewish feast, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2. Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate, was the pool of Bethesda, with five covered porches.
3. Within these lay a multitude of the sick–blind, lame, and paralyzed [--waiting for the moving of the water,
4. because an angel would go down into the pool from time to time and stir up the water. Then the first one who got in after the water was stirred up recovered from whatever ailment he had].
5. Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years.
6. When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized that the man had been disabled a long time already, he said to him, “Do you want to become well?”
7. The sick man answered Jesus, “Sir, I don’t have anyone to put me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I’m trying to get there, someone else steps into the pool ahead of me.”
8. Jesus said to him, “Stand up! Pick up your mat and walk.”
9. And immediately the man was made whole, took up his bed, and walked. The day this happened was a Sabbath.
10. When the Jewish leaders saw the man carrying his mat, they said to him, “This is the Sabbath! No one is allowed to carry a mat on the Sabbath.”
11. But he replied, “The man who healed me told me to pick up my mat and walk.”
12. So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?”
13. The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for there were many people there, and Jesus had left.
14. Later, Jesus found the man at the Temple and said to him, “See, you are well now. But stop sinning or something worse may happen to you!”
15. Then the man went and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had healed him.