Healing at Bethesda during Passover

After these things there was a feast of the Jews and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. There at Jerusalem by the sheep market was a pool with five porches, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda. In these, those with aliments gathered—the blind, the crippled, the aged—waiting. And a certain man was there, who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been disabled a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to get well?”

The disabled man replied, “Sir, when the water is troubled, I don’t have anyone to put me in the pool. When I try to get in it, someone always beats me to it.”

Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your bedding and walk.” And immediately the man was healed. He gathered his bedding and walked away.

But the day when he was healed was the Sabbath. So, the Judeans challenged the man who had been healed and said, "This is the Sabbath! You can’t carry your pallet; it’s against the law to carry your bed!”

He answered them, “The one who made me whole—that very man—he said to me, ‘Pick up you bedding, and walk.’”

So, they asked him, “Who was he? Who told you to pick up your bed and walk?”

But the man who had been healed didn’t know it was Jesus, since he hadn’t identified himself because of the crowd there.  Later, Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “Look! You’ve been made whole. Stop sinning or something worse might happen to you.” When the man left, he told the Judeans that the one who had healed him was Jesus.