John
5:1-15
NIV
Translation
John
5
The
Healing at the Pool
1
Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews.
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—and they waited for the moving of the waters.
4
From time to time an angel of the Lord would come down and stir up
the waters. The first one into the pool after each such disturbance would
be cured of whatever disease he had.
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?"
7
"Sir," the invalid replied, "I have no one to help me into the pool when
the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down
ahead of me."
8
Then Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your
mat and walk."
9
At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.
The day on which this took place was a Sabbath,
10
and so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath;
the law forbids you to carry your mat."
11
But he replied, "The man who made me well said to me, 'Pick up your mat
and walk.' "
12
So they asked him, "Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?"
13
The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away
into the crowd that was there.
14
Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "See,
you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you."
15
The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him
well. |
John
5:1-15
New
Living Translation
John
5
Jesus
Heals a Lame Man
1
Afterward Jesus returned to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish holy days.
2
Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate, was the pool of Bethesda, with five
covered porches.
3
Crowds of sick people—blind, lame, or paralyzed—lay on the porches waiting
for a certain movement of the water,
4
for an angel of the Lord came from time to time and stirred up the water.
And the first person to step in after the water was stirred was healed
of whatever disease he had.
5
One of the men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years.
6
When Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill for a long time, he asked him,
“Would you like to get well?”
7
“I can’t, sir,” the sick man said, “for I have no one to put me into the
pool when the water bubbles up. Someone else always gets there ahead of
me.”
8
Jesus told him, “Stand up, pick up your mat,
and walk!”
9
Instantly, the man was healed! He rolled up his sleeping mat and began
walking! But this miracle happened on the Sabbath,
10
so the Jewish leaders objected. They said to the man who was cured, “You
can’t work on the Sabbath! The law doesn’t allow you to carry that sleeping
mat!”
11
But he replied, “The man who healed me told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”
12
“Who said such a thing as that?” they demanded.
13
The man didn’t know, for Jesus had disappeared into the crowd.
14
But afterward Jesus found him in the Temple and told him,
“Now you are well; so stop sinning, or something even worse may happen
to you.”
15
Then the man went and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had
healed him. |
