JOHN 5:1-18
5:1 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
5:2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in 
the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
5:3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, 
waiting for the moving of the water.
5:4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the 
water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was 
made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
5:5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
5:6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that 
case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
5:7 The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is 
troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down 
before me.
5:8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
5:9 And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: 
and on the same day was the sabbath.
5:10 The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it 
is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.
5:11 He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up 
thy bed, and walk.
5:12 Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy 
bed, and walk?
5:13 And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself 
away, a multitude being in that place.
5:14 Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou 
art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.
5:15 The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him 
whole.
5:16 And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, 
because he had done these things on the sabbath day.
5:17 But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
5:18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had 
broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal 
with God.