1. After this there was a festival of the Yehuḏim, and יהושע went up to Yerushalayim.
2. And in Yerushalayim at the Sheep Gate there is a pool, which is called in Heḇrew, Bĕyth Zatha, having five porches.
3. In these were lying a great number of those who were sick, blind, crippled, paralysed, waiting for the stirring of the water.
4. For a messenger was going down at a certain time into the pool and was stirring the water. Whoever stepped in first, then, after the stirring of the water, became well of whatever disease he had.
5. And a certain man was there who had a sickness thirty-eight years.
6. When יהושע saw him lying there, and knowing that he already had been a long time, He said to him, “Do you wish to become well?”
7. The sick man answered Him, “Master, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred, but while I am coming, another steps down before me.”
8. יהושע said to him, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.”
9. And immediately the man became well, and he took up his bed and was walking. Now it was Sabbath on that day.
10. The Yehuḏim therefore said to him who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, it is not right for you to take up the bed.”
11. He answered them, “He who made me well said to me, ‘Take up your bed and walk.’ ”
12. Therefore they asked him, “Who is the Man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?”
13. But the one who was healed did not know who it was, for יהושע had moved away, a crowd being in that place.