PRINCIPLES OF MIGRATION
John 5:1-16
1After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew,
Bethesda, having five porches.
3In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the
moving of the water.
4For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred u
p the water; then
whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made well of whatever
disease he had.
5Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years.
6When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition
a long time, He said to him, "Do you want to be made well?"
7The sick man answered Him, "Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the
water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down before me."
8Jesus said to him, "Rise, take up your bed and walk."
9And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked. And that day
was the Sabbath.
10The Jews therefore said to him who was cured, "It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for
you to carry your bed."
11He answered them, "He who made me well said to me, 'Take up your bed and
walk.'"
12Then they asked him, "Who is the Man who said to you, 'Take up your bed and
walk'?"
13But the one who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a
multitude being in that place.
14Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "See, you have been
made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you."
15The man departed and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
16For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him, because He had
done these things on the Sabbath.(NKJ)
