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After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
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Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches.
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In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water.
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For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water; then whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made well of whatever disease he had.
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Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years.
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When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, "Do you want to be made well?"
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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."
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Jesus said to him, "Rise, take up your bed and walk."