Sermon preached 5/26/19, St. Columba's, Washington DC. Click "show more" for overview and scripture.

Overview
“Do you want to be made well?” Jesus asks a sick man at the Beth-zatha fountain in Jerusalem. And then he listens to the answer: he pays attention. The first step for the healer is to look and listen, to pay attention, to see someone, a person, a human being made in God’s image, that others only saw as a problem--or didn’t see at all. If we are going to participate in healing the world, we have to learn to see others the way Jesus sees them.

John 5:1-9
After Jesus healed the son of the official in Capernaum, there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes. In these lay many invalids-- blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be made well?" The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; and while I am making my way, someone else steps down ahead of me." Jesus said to him, "Stand up, take your mat and walk." At once the man was made well, and he took up his mat and began to walk. Now that day was a sabbath.

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