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 him, was  moved  to  pity,  and  said  to  him:  “Wilt  thou  be  made whole?” The  infirm  man  answered:  “Sir,  I have  no  one,  when the water  is  troubled,  to  put  me  into  the  pond; for,  whilst  I am coming,  another  goeth  down  before  me. Jesus said  to  him: “Arise, take up  thy  bed  and  walk!”  Immediately  the  man  was  healed, and he  took  up  his  bed,  and  went  away  rejoicing.

This took  place  on  the  Sabbath. The Jews,  therefore,  seeing the man  carrying  his  bed,  said  to  him:  “It  is  the  Sabbath! It is not  lawful  for  thee  to  take  up  thy  bed.”  The  man  answered:  “He who made  me  whole,  He  said to  me: ‘Take  up  thy  bed  and  walk?’  ” But the  Jews  asked  again:  “Who  is  He  that  said  to  thee: ‘Take up  thy  bed  and  walk!”’  Now  the  man  was  not  able  to tell  them,  for  Jesus  had  withdrawn  from  the  multitude. Soon after, Jesus  met  this  same  man  in  the  Temple,  and  said  to  him: “Behold, thou  art  made  whole;  sin  no  more,  lest  some  worse  thing happen to  thee.”  The  man  then  went  his  way,  and  told  the Jews that  it  was  Jesus  who  had  healed  him.

The Jews,  concealing  their  envy  under  the  cloak  of  zeal  for the law,  persecuted  Jesus  for  curing  the  man  on  the  Sabbath.