Some time after this there was a Jewish festival and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda; it has five covered walkways. Under these lay a crowd of sick, blind, lame, and paralysed people. Now there was a certain man there; he had been ill for thirty eight years. Jesus seeing this man lying down and knowing that he had been ill already a long time, said to him ‘Do you want to be well?’ The sick man replied ‘Sir, I don’t have someone who might put me in the pool when the water is stirred. While I am going, someone else goes down before me.’
Jesus said to him ‘Get up, take your mat and walk away.’ Straighta way the man was well and he took his mat and began to walk.
Now that day was a Sabbath.+
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is discord, union;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy,
For your mercy and for your truth’s sake. Amen