The New Life in Christ: “Do you want to be made well? John 5:6. All things can be done for the one who believes. Mark 9:23.

Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes.

In these lay many invalids-blind, lame and paralyzed.

One man was there who had been ill for thirty eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there for a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be made well?”

The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; and while I am making my way, someone else steps down ahead of me.”

Jesus said to him, “Stand up, take your mat and walk.”

At once the man was made well, and he took up his mat and began to walk.

John 5:2-9.

Amen.