The Healing at the Pool on the Sabbath
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After this there was a 1feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
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Now there is in Jerusalem by 2the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaica called Bethesda,b which has five roofed colonnades.
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One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
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When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be healed?"
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The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me."
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Jesus said to him, 4"Get up, take up your bed, and walk."
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5And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. 6Now that day was the Sabbath.
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So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and 7it is not lawful for you to take up your bed."
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But he answered them, "The man who healed me, that man said to me, 'Take up your bed, and walk.'"
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They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take up your bed and walk'?"
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Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for 8Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place.
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Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, "See, you are well! 9Sin no more, 10that nothing worse may happen to you."
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The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him.
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And this was why the Jews 11were persecuting Jesus, 12because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.
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But Jesus answered them, "My Father is working until now, and I am working."
Almeida Atualizada (Portuguese) AA
João 5:1
Depois disso havia uma festa dos judeus; e Jesus subiu a Jerusalém.
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