JOHN 5 1-17

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1 - After this there was an annual feast day {Purim? Not in Lev.23, added later in commemoration of being saved from annihilation in the days of Esther} and so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

     2 In Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate is a pool, and its Aramaic name is Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. 3 In these lay a number of people, blind, lame, and paralyzed. 5 There was a man there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 Jesus knew he had been lying there a long time, and he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” 7 The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred (by an angel, healing one person) and while I am going another steps down before me.” 8 Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.”9 And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked.

     Now it was the Sabbath. 10 So the leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It’s the Sabbath! And it’s not lawful for you to carry your bed.” 11 And he answered them daying, “The man who healed me, he said to take up my bed, and walk.”12 They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?” 13 Now the man who had been healed didn’t know who it was, for Jesus had gone on, there being a crowd there. 14 Later Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you.” 15 The man went to the leaders and told them it was Jesus who had healed him. 16 And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. 17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working even until now, and so I am working.”

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Tomorrows verses - John 5:18-29

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