For from time to time an angel would come down into the pool and stir the water; and the first one in after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease had held him.
Note. This passage is missing from the earliest manuscripts; it is preserved for its place in the tradition.
In context
2In Jerusalem, by the Sheep Gate, there is a pool called Bethesda in Hebrew, with five colonnades. 3In them lay a crowd of the sick — the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. 4For from time to time an angel would come down into the pool and stir the water; and the first one in after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease had held him. 5One man there had been ill for thirty-eight years. 6Jesus saw him lying there and knew he had been that way a long time. He said to him, “Do you want to get well?”
