5. And a certain man was there who had been thirty-eight years in his sickness.
6. Jesus, when he saw this one lying there and knew that he had been sick a long time already, said to him, “Do you want to become well?”
7. The one who was sick answered him, “Sir, I do not have anyone that, whenever the water is stirred up, could put me into the pool. But while I am coming, another goes down before me.”
8. Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk!”
9. And immediately the man became well and picked up his mat and began to walk. (Now it was the Sabbath on that day.)
10. So the Jews were saying to the one who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not permitted for you to pick up the mat!”
11. But he answered them, “The one who made me well—that one said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk!’ ”
12. So they asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk?’ ”