5. Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years.
6. When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized that the man had been disabled a long time already, he said to him, “Do you want to become well?”
7. The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get into the water, someone else goes down there before me.”
8. Jesus said to him, “Stand up! Pick up your mat and walk.”
9. Immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his mat and started walking. (Now that day was a Sabbath.)
10. So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat.”