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1Later, Jesus went to Jerusalem for another Jewish festival.[#5.1 Either the Festival of Shelters or Passover.]
2In the city near the sheep gate was a pool with five porches, and its name in Hebrew was Bethzatha.[#5.2 Some manuscripts have “Bethesda” and others have “Bethsaida.”]
3-4Many sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed people were lying close to the pool.[#5.3,4 Some manuscripts add, “They were waiting for the water to be stirred, because an angel from the Lord would sometimes come down and stir it. The first person to get into the pool after that would be healed.”]
5Beside the pool was a man who had been sick for 38 years.
6When Jesus saw the man and realized that he had been crippled for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to be healed?”
7The man answered, “Sir, I don't have anyone to put me in the pool when the water is stirred up. I try to get in, but someone else always gets there first.”
8Jesus told him, “Pick up your mat and walk!”
9Right then the man was healed. He picked up his mat and started walking around. The day on which this happened was a Sabbath.
10When 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.”[#Ne 13.19; Jr 17.21-24.]
11But he replied, “The man who healed me told me to pick up my mat and walk.”
12They asked him, “Who is this man that told you to pick up your mat and walk?”
13But he did not know who Jesus was, and Jesus had left because of the crowd.
14Later, Jesus met the man in the temple and told him, “You are now well. But don't sin anymore or something worse might happen to you.”
15The man left and told the leaders that Jesus was the one who had healed him.
16They started making a lot of trouble for Jesus because he did things like this on the Sabbath.
17But Jesus said, “My Father has never stopped working, and this is why I keep on working.”
18Now the leaders wanted to kill Jesus for two reasons. First, he had broken the law of the Sabbath. But even worse, he had said God was his Father, which made him equal with God.[#Ws 2.16.]
19Jesus told the people: