5. And a certain man was there who had been thirty-eight years in his sickness.
6. Jesus, when he saw this one lying there and knew that he had been sick a long time already, said to him, “Do you want to become well?”
7. The one who was sick answered him, “Sir, I do not have anyone that, whenever the water is stirred up, could put me into the pool. But while I am coming, another goes down before me.”
8. Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk!”
9. And immediately the man became well and picked up his mat and began to walk. (Now it was the Sabbath on that day.)
10. So the Jews were saying to the one who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not permitted for you to pick up the mat!”
11. But he answered them, “The one who made me well—that one said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk!’ ”
12. So they asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk?’ ”
13. But the one who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn while a crowd was in the place.
14. After these things Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “Look, you have become well! Sin no longer, lest something worse happen to you.”
15. The man went and reported to the Jews that Jesus was the one who made him well.
16. And on account of this the Jews began to persecute Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.
17. But he answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”
18. So on account of this the Jews were seeking even more to kill him, because he not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.