One man there had been ill for thirty-eight years.
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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?” 7The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to lower me into the pool when the water is stirred; and while I am on my way, someone else gets down ahead of me.”
