2. Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
3. In these lay a great multitude of invalid folk, of blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water.
4. For an angel went down at a certain time 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. And a certain man was there, who had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
6. When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been now a long time in that condition, he said unto him,