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for one of the Jewish festivals. 2Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. 5One who was there had been an invalid for years. 6When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get ?” 7“Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.” 8Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” 9At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and . The day on which this took place was a , 10and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the forbids you to your mat.” —John 5:1-10
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