[1] After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
\n[2] Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
\n[3] In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
\n[4] For an angel went down at a certain season 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.
\n[5] And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
\n[6] When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
\n[7] The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
\n[8] Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
\n[9] And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.
\n[10] The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.
\n[11] He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.
\n[12] Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?
\n[13] And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place.
\n[14] Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.
\n[15] The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole.
\n[16] And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.
\n[17] But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
\n[18] Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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