5 ¹ After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

5 ² Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Hebrew called Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes. 5 ³ In these lay a multitude of invalids, blind, lame, paralysed. 5 ⁴ 5 ⁵ One man was there, who had been ill for thirty-eight years. 5 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?" 5 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." 5 ⁸ Jesus said to him, "Rise, take up your pallet, and walk." 5 ⁹ And at once the man was healed, and he took up his pallet and walked.

Now that day was the sabbath.

5 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." 5 ¹¹ But he answered them, "The man who healed me said to me, 'Take up your pallet, and walk.' " 5 ¹² They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take up your pallet, and walk?'" 5 ¹³ Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place. 5 ¹⁴ Afterward, Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse befall you." 5 ¹⁵ The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him.

5 ¹⁶ And this was why the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did this on the sabbath. 5 ¹⁷ But Jesus answered them, "My Father is working still, and I am working." 5 ¹⁸ This was why the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath but also called God his Father, making himself equal with God.