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1 After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
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Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals.
2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porticoes.
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Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.
3 In these lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, and withered, [waiting for the moving of the waters;
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Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.
4 for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool and stirred up the water; whoever then first, after the stirring up of the water, stepped in was made well from whatever disease with which he was afflicted.]
5 A man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.
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One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had already been a long time in that condition, He said to him, "Do you wish to get well?"
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When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”
7 The sick man answered Him, "Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I am coming, another steps down before me."
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“Sir,” the invalid replied, “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.”
8 Jesus said to him, "Get up, pick up your pallet and walk."
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Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.”
9 Immediately the man became well, and picked up his pallet and began to walk. Now it was the Sabbath on that day.
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At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath,
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