John 5:1-7

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

2. 2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.

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

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

5. 5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.

6. 6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?

7. 7 The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.

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