1. After this, a Jewish festival took place, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2. By the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there is a pool, called Bethesda in Hebrew, which has five colonnades.
3. Within these lay a large number of the sick — blind, lame, and paralyzed — waiting for the moving of the water,
4. because an angel would go down into the pool from time to time and stir up the water. Then the first one who got in after the water was stirred up recovered from whatever ailment he had .
5. One man was there who had been sick for 38 years.
6. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew he had already been there a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to get well? ”
7. “Sir,” the sick man answered, “I don’t have a man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, someone goes down ahead of me.”