The Healing of a Paralytic in Jerusalem

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

Now there is in Jerusalem at the Sheep (Gate) a pool called in Hebrew Bethesda, with five porticoes.

In these lay a large number of ill, blind, lame, and crippled. One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.

When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been ill for a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be well?”

The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; while I am on my way, someone else gets down there before me.”

Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your mat, and walk.”
Immediately the man became well, took up his mat, and walked. Now that day was a sabbath.

Source

The Gospel of St. John 5:1-9
The New American Bible

Documents

Homily on the Gospel of St. John 5:6-13
By St. John Chrysostom

Resources

Tractate 17 on the Gospel of St. John 5:1-18
By St. Augustine of Hippo

The Chosen – Jesus Heals at the Pool
By Angel Productions