1. Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals.
2. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.
3. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.
5. One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
6. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"