John 5: 1 - 16
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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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| 3
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In these lay a multitude of invalids, blind, lame, paralyzed.
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| 5
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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."
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| 8
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Jesus said to him, "Rise, take up your pallet, and walk."
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| 9
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And at once the man was healed, and he took up his pallet and walked. Now that day was the sabbath.
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| 10
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So the Jews said to the man who was cured, "It is the sabbath, it is not lawful for you to carry your pallet."
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| 11
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But he answered them, "The man who healed me said to me, `Take up your pallet, and walk.'"
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| 12
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They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, `Take up your pallet, and walk'?"
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| 13
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Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place.
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| 14
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Afterward, Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse befall you."
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| 15
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The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him.
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| 16
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And this was why the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did this on the sabbath.
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