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After these things there was ^(C1)a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Now in Jerusalem, by ^(C1)the Sheep Gate, there is a pool which ^(C2)in ^(F1)Hebrew is called ^(F2)Bethesda, having five ^(F3)porticoes.

In these porticoes lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, limping, or ^(F1)paralyzed.^(F2)

Now a man was there who had been ^(F1)ill for thirty-eight years.

Jesus, upon seeing this man lying there and knowing that he had already been in that condition for a long time, ^(*)said to him, "Do you want to get well?"

The sick man answered Him, "Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I am coming, another steps down before me."

Jesus ^(*)said to him, "^(C1)Get up, pick up your pallet and walk."

Immediately the man became well, and picked up his pallet and began to walk. ^(C1)Now it was a Sabbath on that day.

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So ^(C1)the Jews were saying to the man who was cured, "It is a Sabbath, and ^(C2)it is not permissible for you to carry your pallet."

But he answered them, "He who made me well was the one who said to me, 'Pick up your pallet and walk.'"

They asked him, "Who is the Man who said to you, 'Pick it up and walk'?"

But the man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away while there was a crowd in that place.

Afterward, Jesus ^(*)found him in the temple and said to him, "Behold, you have become well; do not ^(C1)sin anymore, ^(C2)so that nothing worse happens to you."

The man went away, and informed ^(C1)the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

For this reason ^(C1)the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He was doing these things on a Sabbath.

But He answered them, "My Father ^(F1)is working until now, and I Myself am working."

For this reason therefore ^(C1)the Jews ^(C2)were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, ^(C3)making Himself equal with God.

Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(C1)the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever ^(F1)the Father does, these things the Son also does in the same way.