1 After this, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem, there is a pool, which is called Bethesda in Hebrew. It’s surrounded by five covered colonnades.
3 In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water,
4 for an angel went down from time to time into the pool and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made well of whatever disease that person had.
5 A certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years.
6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had already been sick for a long time, He asked him,
7 The sick man answered, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, another steps down before me.”
8 Jesus told him,
9 Immediately, the man was made well, took up his mat, and walked. That was on the Sabbath day.
10 Therefore the Jews were telling him who was cured, “It’s the Sabbath, and it isn’t legal for you to carry your mat.”
11 He answered them, “He who made me well told me,
12 Then they asked him, “Who told you to?”
13 The man who had been healed didn’t know who it was, because Jesus had disappeared into the crowd.
14 Later, Jesus found him in the temple and told him,
15 The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
16 For this reason, the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.
17 Jesus answered them,
18 Because of this, the Jews tried all the harder to kill Him. Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.
19 Then Jesus answered,
24 “Most assuredly, I tell you, the person who hears my words and believes in Him who sent me has everlasting life, and won’t come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.