his
servants met him, and brought word saying: Thy child lives. (52)He
inquired of them, therefore, the hour when he began to amend. And they
said to him: Yesterday, at the seventh hour, the fever left him.
(53)The father knew, therefore, that it was in the same hour in which
Jesus said to him: Thy son lives. And he himself believed, and his
whole house. (54)This second sign Jesus wrought, when he had come out
of Judaea into Galilee.

V.

AFTER these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to
Jerusalem. (2)And there is in Jerusalem by the sheep-gate a pool,
which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
(3)In these lay a multitude of the infirm, of blind, lame, withered
[waiting for the moving of the water. (4)For an angel went down at a
certain season into the pool, and troubled the water. He therefore;
who first went in after the troubling of the water, was made whole of
whatever disease he had][5:4]. (5)And a certain man was there, who had
an infirmity thirty and eight years. (6)Jesus seeing this man lying,
and knowing that he had been already a long time thus, says to him:
Dost thou desire to be made whole? (7)The infirm man answered him:
Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the
pool; but while I am coming, another goes down before me. (8)Jesus
says to him: Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. (9)And immediately the
man was made whole, and took up his bed and walked.

And on that day was the sabbath. (10)The Jews therefore said to him
that was cured: It is the sabbath; it is not lawful for thee to carry
the bed. (11)He answered them: He who made me whole, the same said to
me: Take up thy bed, and walk. (12)They asked him therefore: Who is
the man that said to thee: Take up thy bed and walk? (13)And he who
was healed knew not who it was; for Jesus conveyed himself away, there
being a multitude in the place.

(14)Afterward Jesus finds him in the temple. And he said to him:
Behold, thou hast been made whole; sin no more, lest something worse
befall thee. (15)The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus
who made him whole. (16)And for this the Jews persecuted Jesus,
because he did these things on the sabbath. (17)But Jesus answered
them: My Father works hitherto, and I work. (18)For this therefore the
Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only broke the
sabbath, but also called God his Father, making himself equal with
God.

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