'The pool at Bethesda,'
Back to Bible Topic from Genesis to Revelation
Back to Bible Topic from Matthew to Revelation
Back to 'John
Jn 5:1: After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Jn 5:2: Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
Jn 5:3: In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
Jn 5:4: For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
Jn 5:5: And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
Jn 5:6: When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
Jn 5:7: The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
Jn 5:8: Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
Jn 5:9: And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.
Jn 5:10: The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.
Jn 5:11: He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.
Jn 5:12: Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?
Jn 5:13: And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place.
Jn 5:14: Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.
Jn 5:15: The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole.
Jn 5:16: And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.