Healing the paralytic at Bethesda

The Healing of a paralytic at Bethesda is one of the miraculous healings attributed to Jesus in the New Testament.

This event occurs only in the Gospel of John, which says that it took place near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem, close to a fountain or a pool called "Bethzatha" in the Novum Testamentum Graece version of the New Testament. The Revised Standard Version used the name "Bethzatha", but other versions (the King James Version and Geneva Bible) have "Bethesda". The place is called "Probatica, or in Hebrew Bethsaida", in the Douai-Rheims translation.

John's Gospel account describes how Jesus, visiting Jerusalem for a Jewish feast (John 5:1), encounters one of the disabled people who used to lie here, a man who had been paralysed for thirty-eight years. Some manuscripts of the Gospel include a passage considered by many textual critics to be an interpolation added to the original text, which explained that "an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water; then whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made well of whatever disease he had" (John 5:4 - see John 5). Jesus asks the man if he wants to get well. The man explains that he is unable to enter the water when the water is stirred up, because he has no one to help in and others go down ahead of him. Jesus tells him to pick up his bed or mat and walk; the man is instantly cured and is able to do so.

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