John:5:1-15

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* Afterward there was a Jewish festival , and Jesus went to Jerusalem . * Now there is at Jerusalem , nigh the sheep gate , a bath , called , in Hebrew , Bethesda , which has five covered walks . * In these lay a great number of sick , blind , lame , and palsied people , waiting for the moving of the water , * (for a messenger at times descended into the bath , and agitated the water ; and the first that stepped in , after the agitation of the water , was cured of whatever disease he had .) * Now , there was one there , who had been diseased thirty-eight years . * Jesus , who saw him lying , and knew that he had been long ill , said to him , * The diseased man answered , Sir , I have no person to put me into the bath , when the water is agitated ; but while I am going , another gets down before me . * Jesus said to him , * Instantly the man was healed , and took up his couch and walked . * Now , that day was the Sabbath . The Jews , therefore , said to him that was cured , This is the Sabbath . It is now lawful for you to carry the couch . * He answered , He who healed me , said to me , * They asked him then , Who is the man that said to you , * But he that had been healed , knew who it was ; for Jesus had slipped away , there being a crowd in the place . * Jesus , afterward , finding him in the temple , said to him , * The man went , and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had cured him .

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