John 5
The Healing at the Pool on the Sabbath
1. After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic[a] called Bethesda,[b] which has five roofed colonnades.
3. In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed.[c]
Footnotes:
a. John 5:2: Or Hebrew
b. John 5:2: Some manuscripts Bethsaida
c. John 5:3: Some manuscripts insert, wholly or in part, waiting for the moving of the water; 4for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool, and stirred the water: whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had
d. John 5:10: The Greek word Ioudaioi refers specifically here to Jewish religious leaders, and others under their influence, who opposed Jesus in that time; also verses 15, 16, 18
e. John 5:19: Greek he