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 bath, which is called in the Hebrew tongue, Bethesda, having five porticos.

3 In these lay a great multitude of diseased, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

4 For an angel went down at certain times into the bath, and the water was troubled: and whosoever went in first, after the troubling of the water, was made whole, whatsoever disease he had.

5 And a certain man was there, who had been diseased eight and thirty years.

6 Jesus seeing him lie, and knowing that he had now been diseased a long time, saith to him, Desirest thou to be made whole?

7 The infirm man answered him, Sir, I have no man to put me into the bath, when the water is troubled; and while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.

8 Jesus saith to him, Rise, take up thy bed and walk.

9 And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed and walked: and the same day was the sabbath.