John 5:1–12 · BSB
5:1
Some time later there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
5:2
Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool with five covered colonnades, which in Hebrew is called Bethesda.
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5:3
On these walkways lay a great number of the sick, the blind, the lame, and the paralyzed.
5:4
This verse number has no text in the BSB edition.
5:5
One man there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
5:6
When Jesus saw him lying there and realized that he had spent a long time in this condition, He asked him, “Do you want to get well?”
5:7
“Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am on my way, someone else goes in before me.”
5:8
Then Jesus told him, “Get up, pick up your mat, and walk.”
5:9
Immediately the man was made well, and he picked up his mat and began to walk. Now this happened on the Sabbath day,
5:10
so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “This is the Sabbath! It is unlawful for you to carry your mat.”
5:11
But he answered, “The man who made me well told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”
5:12
“Who is this man who told you to pick it up and walk?” they asked.
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