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After these things there was a feast of the Jews. |
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And Jesus stepped up into Jerusalem. |
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Now there is in Jerusalem a pool by the Sheep Gate, ... |
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The one in Hebrew called Bethesda, having five porticos. |
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In these were laying down a multitude of ones being ill, blind, lame, dried. |
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[ For an angel of the Lord used to come down into the pool, and the water was stirred up ... |
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so the first one to get in, was healed of whatever disease afflicted him. ] |
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And there was a certain man there, thirty eight years having been in his weakness. |
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Jesus perceiving this man lying down, ... |
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and already knowing how much time he has been like this, ... |
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he says to him, ... Do you want to be well? |
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The weak one answered him, ... Lord, I do not have a man that when the water is agitated he may put me into the pool. |
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But while I am coming, another goes down before me. |
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Jesus says to him, ... Rise, take your mat and walk around. |
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And immediately the man became healthly. |
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And he took his mat and was walking around. |
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And it was a Sabbath on that day! |
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Therefore the Jews were saying to the one having been healed, ... It is a Sabbath! |
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And it is not lawful for you to carry your mat. |
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But the man answered them, ... The one who made me healthy, that one said to me, ... |
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Take up your mat and walk around. |
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They asked him, ... Who is the man telling you, ... |
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"take it up and walk around?" |
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But the one having been healed did not know who it is. |
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For Jesus slipped out - there being a crowd in the place. |
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After these things, Jesus finds him in the temple and said to him ... Look, you have become healthy! |
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Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you. |
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The man went away and reported to the Jews that Jesus is the one having made him healthy. |
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And because of this the Jews persecuted Jesus ... |
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because he was doing these things on a Sabbath. |
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But Jesus answered them, ... My father is now working, ... |
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and I am working (on a Sabbath). |
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Therefore because of this, the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him. |
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Because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, ... |
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but also he was saying his own Father is God, making himself equal to God. |