5:1 After this ¹  there was a Jewish feast, ²  and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ³  5:2 Now there is ⁴  in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate ⁵  a pool called Bethzatha ⁶  in Aramaic, ⁷  which has five covered walkways. ⁸  5:3 A great number of sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed people were lying in these walkways. 5:4 [[EMPTY]] ⁹  5:5 Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years. ¹⁰  5:6 When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized ¹¹  that the man ¹²  had been disabled a long time already, he said to him, “Do you want to become well?” 5:7 The sick man answered him, “Sir, ¹³  I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get into the water, ¹⁴  someone else ¹⁵  goes down there ¹⁶  before me.” 5:8 Jesus said to him, “Stand up! Pick up your mat ¹⁷  and walk.” 5:9 Immediately the man was healed, ¹⁸  and he picked up his mat ¹⁹  and started walking. (Now that day was a Sabbath.) ²⁰ 

5:10 So the Jewish leaders ²¹  said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat.” ²²  5:11 But he answered them, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat ²³  and walk.’” 5:12 They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your mat ²⁴  and walk’?” ²⁵  5:13 But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped out, since there was a crowd in that place.

5:14 After this Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “Look, you have become well. Don’t sin any more, ²⁶  lest anything worse happen to you.” 5:15 The man went away and informed the Jewish leaders ²⁷  that Jesus was the one who had made him well.

5:16 Now because Jesus was doing these things ²⁸  on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders ²⁹  began persecuting ³⁰  him. 5:17 So he ³¹  told ³²  them, “My Father is working until now, and I too am working.” ³³  5:18 For this reason the Jewish leaders ³⁴  were trying even harder to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.