2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool called in Aramaic Bethzatha, which has five porticoes.
3 In these were lying a large number of those who were sick, blind, lame, paralyzed.
5 And a certain man was there who had been thirty-eight years in his sickness.
6 Jesus, when he saw this one lying there and knew that he had been sick a long time already, said to him, “Do you want to become well?”
7 The one who was sick answered him, “Sir, I do not have anyone that, whenever the water is stirred up, could put me into the pool. But while I am coming, another goes down before me.”
8 Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk!”
9 And immediately the man became well and picked up his mat and began to walk. (Now it was the Sabbath on that day.)