John:5:1-15

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* After this there was a feast of the Jews , and Jesus went up to Jerusalem . * Now there is in Jerusalem a pool near the Sheep-gate , called in the Hebrew , Bethesda . * It has five colonnades . In these there used to lie a great crowd of sick people - blind , lame , paralyzed . * And there was one man there for thirty-eight years in his infirmity . * When Jesus saw him lying there , and knew that he had been there a long time , he said to him , "Do you want to get well ?" * "Sir ," answered the sick man , "I have no man to put me into the pool whenever the water is troubled ; and while I am trying to come , some one else steps down before me ." * "Rise ," said Jesus , "take up your bed and go walking away ." * Instantly the man became well , and he took up his bed and started to walk . Now it was Sabbath on that day ; * so the Jews kept saying to the man who had been cured . "It is the Sabbath Day ; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed ." * He replied , "The man who healed me told me to take up my bed and walk ." * "Who is it ," they asked , "that said to you , take up your bed and go walking away ?" * But he who had been healed did not know who it was , for Jesus had moved away , as there was a crowd in that place . * Afterward Jesus found him in the Temple , and said to him . "Look ! You have become well . Do not go on sinning , lest a worse thing befall you ." * The man went to and told the Jews that it was Jesus who made him well ;

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