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After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
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Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Hebrew called Beth-za'tha, which has five porticoes.
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In these lay a multitude of invalids, blind, lame, paralyzed.
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One man was there, who had been ill for thirty-eight years.
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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?"
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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."
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (Revised Standard Version - Holy Bible)
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