1. After these things, there was a Chag (Feast) in Yehudah and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went up to Yerushalayim.
2. Now there is in Yerushalayim at the Sha'ar HaTzon (Sheepgate) [NECHEMYAH 3:1,32; 12:39] a pool, the one being called in Aramaic, Beit-Zata, having chamasha colonnades.
3. In these lay a multitude of invalids-- ivrim (blind men), pisechim (lame persons), paralyzed.
4. For a malach Hashem from time to time descended into the berekhah (pool) and agitated the mayim; therefore, he who entered first after the agitation of the mayim, became whole, whatever choli (disease, sickness) he was held by.
5. And there was a certain man there SHELOSHIM U'SHEMONEH SHANAH [DEVARIM 2:14] having been in his machla (illness).
6. Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, seeing this man lying there, and having da'as that the man had been in this condition for a long time already, says to him, Do you want to have refu'ah [YESHAYAH 53:5]?
7. In reply, the choleh (sick one) said, Adoni, I have no one, when the mayim is disturbed, to put me into the pool. While I am coming, someone steps into the pool ahead of me.
8. Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to him, Rise up, take your mat and walk.
9. And immediately the man received his refu'ah (healing) and took his mat and was walking around. And that day was Shabbos.
10. So those of Yehudah were saying to the one having been granted refu'ah (healing), It is Shabbos, so it is asur (prohibited), it is chillul Shabbos [desecration of Shabbat] for you to carry your mat. [NECHEMYAH 13:15 22; YIRMEYAH 17:21]
11. But the man in reply said to them, The one having given me refu'ah, that one said to me, Take up your mat and walk!
12. They asked him, Who is haIsh (the man) telling you to take up your mat and walk?