John 5:1-15 (Gospel)
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- After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
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- Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches.
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- In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water.
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- For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water; then whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made well of whatever disease he had.
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- Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years.
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- When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to be made well?”
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- The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down before me.”
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- Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.”
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- And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked. And that day was the Sabbath.
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- The Jews therefore said to him who was cured, “It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed.”
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- He answered them, “He who made me well said to me, ‘Take up your bed and walk.’”
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- Then they asked him, “Who is the Man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?”
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- But the one who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a multitude being in that place.
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- Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you.”
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- The man departed and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.