1 After this, Jesus went to Jerusalem for a religious festival.
2 Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there is a pool with five porches; in Hebrew it is called Bethzatha.
3 A large crowd of sick people were lying in the porches — the blind, the lame, and the paralysed.
5 A man was there who had been ill for 38 years.
6 Jesus saw him lying there, and he knew that the man had been ill for such a long time; so he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”
7 The sick man answered, “Sir, I have no one here to put me in the pool when the water is stirred up; while I am trying to get in, somebody else gets there first.”