TODAY'S BIBLE PASSAGE

JOHN 5:1-14 WEYMOUTH Translation.

5:1 After this there was a Festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
5:2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, called in Hebrew 'Bethesda.' It has five arcades.
5:3 In these there used to lie a great number of sick persons, and of people who were blind or lame or paralyzed.
5:4 [Weymouth leaves this verse out!]
5:5 And there was one man there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
5:6 Jesus saw him lying there, and knowing that he had been a long time in that condition, He asked him, "Do you wish to have health and strength?"
5:7 "Sir," replied the sufferer, "I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is moved; but while I am coming some one else steps down before me."
5:8 "Rise," said Jesus, "take up your mat and walk."
5:9 Instantly the man was restored to perfect health, and he took up his mat and began to walk.
5:10 That day was a Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "It is the Sabbath: you must not carry your mat."
5:11 "He who cured me," he replied, "said to me, 'Take up your mat and walk.'"
5:12 "Who is it," they asked, "that said to you, 'Take up your mat and walk'?"
5:13 But the man who had been cured did not know who it was; for Jesus had passed out unnoticed, there being a crowd in the place.
5:14 Afterwards Jesus found him in the Temple and said to him, "You are now restored to health. Do not sin any more, or a worse thing may befall you."