6. Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been sick for a very long time. So he asked him, “Do you want to be well?”
7. The sick man answered, “Sir, there is no one to help me get into the water when it starts moving. I try to be the first one into the water. But when I try, someone else always goes in before I can.”
8. Then Jesus said, “Stand up! Pick up your mat and walk.”
9. Immediately the man was well. He picked up his mat and started walking. The day all this happened was a Sabbath day.
10. So some Jews said to the man who had been healed, “Today is the Sabbath. It is against our law for you to carry your mat on the Sabbath day.”
11. But he answered, “The man who made me well told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”
12. They asked him, “Who is the man who told you to pick up your mat and walk?”