Jesus Heals a Man at Bethesda

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Some time later there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

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Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool with five covered colonnades, which in Hebrew is called Bethesda.

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On these walkways lay a great number of the sick, the blind, the lame, and the paralyzed.

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One man there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

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When Jesus saw him lying there and realized that he had spent a long time in this condition, He asked him, “Do you want to get well?”

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“Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am on my way, someone else goes in before me.”

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Then Jesus told him, “Get up, pick up your mat, and walk.”

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Immediately the man was made well, and he picked up his mat and began to walk. Now this happened on the Sabbath day,