1 Later, Jesus went to Jerusalem for a Jewish festival.
2 Near Sheep Gate in Jerusalem was a pool called Bethesda in Hebrew. It had five porches.
3 Under these porches a large number of sick people—people who were blind, lame, or paralyzed—used to lie.
5 One man, who had been sick for 38 years, was lying there.
6 Jesus saw the man lying there and knew that he had been sick for a long time. So Jesus asked the man, “Would you like to get well?”