1. Later, Jesus went to Jerusalem for a Jewish festival.
2. Near Sheep Gate in Jerusalem was a pool called Bethesda in Hebrew. It had five porches.
3. Under these porches a large number of sick people—people who were blind, lame, or paralyzed—used to lie.
5. One man, who had been sick for 38 years, was lying there.
6. Jesus saw the man lying there and knew that he had been sick for a long time. So Jesus asked the man, “Would you like to get well?”