1. After this, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2. Now there is in Jerusalem at the Sheep [Gate] a pool called in Hebrew Bethesda, with five porticoes.
3. In these lay a large number of ill, blind, lame, and crippled. [
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5. One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.
6. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been ill for a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be well?”