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

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Now in Jerusalem near the sheep-market there is a public bath which in Hebrew is named Beth-zatha. It has five doorways.

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In these doorways there were a great number of people with different diseases: some unable to see, some without the power of walking, some with wasted bodies.

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One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.

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When Jesus saw him there on the floor it was clear to him that he had been now a long time in that condition, and so he said to the man, Is it your desire to get well?

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The ill man said in answer, Sir, I have nobody to put me into the bath when the water is moving and while I am on the way down some other person gets in before me.

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Jesus said to him, Get up, take your bed and go.

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And the man became well straight away, and took up his bed and went. Now that day was the Sabbath.

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So the Jews said to the man who had been made well, It is the Sabbath and it is against the law for you to take up your bed.

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He said to them, But he who made me well, said to me, Take up your bed and go.

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Then they put to him the question: Who is the man who said to you, Take it up and go?

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Now he who had been made well had no knowledge who it was, Jesus having gone away because of the number of people who were in that place.

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After a time Jesus came across him in the Temple and said to him, See, you are well and strong do no more sin for fear a worse thing comes to you.

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The man went away and said to the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

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And for this reason the Jews were turned against Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

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But his answer was: My Father is still working even now, and so I am working.