Gospel: John 5:1-16

¹ After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
² Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Hebrew called Beth-za’tha, which has five porticoes.
³ In these lay a multitude of invalids, blind, lame, paralyzed.
⁵ One man was there, who had been ill for thirty-eight years.
⁶ When Jesus saw him and knew that he had been lying there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?”
⁷ The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is troubled, and while I am going another steps down before me.”
⁸ Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your pallet, and walk.”
⁹ And at once the man was healed, and he took up his pallet and walked. Now that day was the sabbath.
¹⁰ So the Jews said to the man who was cured, “It is the sabbath, it is not lawful for you to carry your pallet.”
¹¹ But he answered them, “The man who healed me said to me, `Take up your pallet, and walk.’”
<sup>12</sup> They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, `Take up your pallet, and walk’?”
¹³ Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place.
¹⁴ Afterward, Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse befall you.”
¹⁵ The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him.
¹⁶ And this was why the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did this on the sabbath.