5. Now a certain man had been an invalid there for thirty-eight years.
6. Seeing him lying there and knowing he had been that way a long time, Yeshua said to him, “Do you want to get well?”
7. The invalid answered Him, “Sir, I have nobody to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I’m trying to get in, somebody else steps down before me!”
8. Yeshua tells him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk!”
9. Immediately, the man was healed! He took up his mat and started walking around. Now that day was Shabbat,
10. so Judean leaders were saying to the man who was healed, “It’s Shabbat! It’s not permitted for you to carry your mat.”
11. But he answered them, “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, ‘Pick up your mat and walk’?”
13. But the man who had been healed didn’t know who it was, for Yeshua had slipped away into the crowd in that place.
14. Afterwards, Yeshua finds him in the Temple. He said to him, “Look, you’ve been healed! Stop sinning, so nothing worse happens to you.”
15. The man left and told the Judean leaders that it was Yeshua who had made him well.
16. Because Yeshua was doing these things on Shabbat, the Judean leaders started persecuting Him.
17. But Yeshua said to them, “My Father is still working, and I also am working.”
18. So for this reason the Judean leaders kept trying even harder to kill Him—because He was not only breaking Shabbat, but also calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.
19. Therefore Yeshua answered them, “Amen, amen I tell you, the Son cannot do anything by Himself. He can do only what He sees the Father doing. Whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.
20. For the Father loves the Son and shows Him everything He does. He will show Him even greater works than these, so that you will be amazed.