Jesus heals an invalid at Bethesda

John 5: 1-15

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• 1. Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews.
• 2. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.
• 3. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie--the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.
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• 5. One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
• 6. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"
• 7. "Sir," the invalid replied, "I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me."
• 8. Then Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk."
• 9. At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath,
• 10. and so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat."
• 11. But he replied, "The man who made me well said to me, 'Pick up your 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 Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.
• 14. Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you."
• 15. The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

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