1. After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2. Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, which in Hebrew is called Bethesda, having five porches.
3. In these lay a great crowd of invalids, blind, lame, and paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water.
4. For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water. After the stirring of the water, whoever stepped in first was healed of whatever disease he had.
5. A certain man was there who had an illness for thirty-eight years.
6. When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been in that condition now a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to be healed?”
7. The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred. But while I am coming, another steps down before me.”