6. When Jesus noticed him lying there [helpless], knowing that he had already been a long time in that condition, He said to him, Do you want to become well? [Are you really in earnest about getting well?]
7. The invalid answered, Sir, I have nobody when the water is moving to put me into the pool; but while I am trying to come [into it] myself, somebody else steps down ahead of me.
8. Jesus said to him, Get up! Pick up your bed (sleeping pad) and walk!
9. Instantly the man became well and recovered his strength and picked up his bed and walked. But that happened on the Sabbath.
10. So the Jews kept saying to the man who had been healed, It is the Sabbath, and you have no right to pick up your bed [it is not lawful].
11. He answered them, The Man Who healed me and gave me back my strength, He Himself said to me, Pick up your bed and walk!
12. They asked him, Who is the Man Who told you, Pick up your bed and walk?
13. Now the invalid who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had quietly gone away [had passed on unnoticed], since there was a crowd in the place.
14. Afterward, when Jesus found him in the temple, He said to him, See, you are well! Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.
15. The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus Who had made him well.
16. For this reason the Jews began to persecute (annoy, torment) Jesus and sought to kill Him, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.