Jesus heals a man at the pool of Bethesda John 5:1-24

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John 5:1-24

1 In Jerusalem there was a

pool called Bethesda
where disabled people
gathered. Many were
blind, lame or paralysed.

2 They went to the pool

because it was believed
that from time to time
an angel of the Lord
stirred the waters and
the first one into the
pool would be healed.

3 On the Sabbath day of

rest Jesus went to the
pool and saw a man who
had been an invalid for
38 years. ‘Do you want
to get well?’ Jesus
asked.
4 ‘Sir,’ the invalid
explained, ‘I have no
one to help me into the
pool when the water is
stirred. While I am trying
to get in, someone else
goes down ahead of
me.’ Then Jesus told
him, ‘Get up! Pick up
your mat and walk.’

5 At once the man was

cured. He picked up his
mat and walked. But
when he looked for the
man who had healed
him, He had slipped
away into the crowd.

6 When the Jewish leaders

saw the healed man
carrying his mat on the
Sabbath day of rest they
shouted, ‘The law
forbids you to carry your
mat on the Sabbath.’
The man explained that
the man who had healed
him had commanded
him to pick up his mat
and walk. When they
asked who it was who
had healed him he
explained he did not
know.

7 Later Jesus found him at

the temple and said to
him, ‘See, you are well
again. Stop sinning or
something worse may
happen to you.’

8 The man went away and

told the Jewish leaders
that it was Jesus who
had made him well.
9 The Jewish leaders
hunted Jesus down to
attack him for breaking
one of their Sabbath day
rules.

10 In His defence Jesus said

to them, ‘My Father is
always at His work to
this very day, and I too
am working.’

11 That made them furious

because not only was He
breaking one of their
Sabbath rules but by
calling God His father He
was making himself
equal with God.

12 ‘The Son will do far more

awesome miracles than
this and even raise
people from the dead,
just as the Father does,’
Jesus explained. ‘God
leaves all judgment of
sin to His Son. If you
refuse to honour God’s
Son, whom He sent to
you, then you are
certainly not honouring
God.

13 ‘Whoever hears my word

and believes Him who
sent me has eternal life.
They will not be judged
but will cross over from
death to life.’
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