Jesus Healed The Man At The Pool Of Bethesda

In a city called Jerusalem, there was a special pool named Bethesda. Lots of people who couldn't run, jump, or see very well hung out there. ⛲️

An angel would come down from Heaven once a year and stir the water. Whoever jumped in first would get healed from their diseases! ✨

One day, Jesus visited the pool. He saw a man who hadn't been able to jump or walk for a really long time - 38 years! That's like missing out on ALL the best birthday parties!

Jesus asked the man, "Hey there! Would you like to be able to run and walk again?" The man said, "Yes please! But when the water gets swirly, everyone rushes in, and I'm too slow."

Then, something amazing happened! ✨ Jesus told the man, "Stand up tall, grab your mat, and start walking!" And guess what? The man DID! He was all better, just like that! He could finally run, jump, and walk like everyone else!

But wait, there's more! Some Jewish leaders saw the man carrying his mat, and they said, "Uh oh, you're not supposed to do that on this special day!" That was the Sabbath Day or Day of Rest.

The man explained, "The kind man who healed me told me to carry it!" The man could not tell them who had told him to take up his bed and walk But the Jewish leaders still weren't happy, and they wanted to find Jesus.

Later Jesus found the man and told him to stop sinning or something worse would happen to him. The man then went to the Jewish leaders and told them that Jesus had healed him..

The leaders looked for Jesus and rebuked Him for breaking the Sabbath. But He answered them and said, ``My Father is working until now, and I Myself am working."

The rulers became furious because Jesus broke the Sabbath, and called God His own Father, thus making Himself equal with God.

Jesus responded that He was doing everything that He had seen His Father do. He continued to reprove them and ended by saying that

anyone who hears His Word, and believes on the Father will have eternal life.

Remember, even when things seem hard, Jesus wants to help! He can make amazing things happen, just like they did for the man at the super special pool of Bethesda! ✨

The most important thing is to believe the Word of God like the lame man. He received eternal life by faith.

Jesus Healed The Man At The Pool Of Bethesda - JOHN 5 1 - 24

1 After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porticoes.

3 In these lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, and withered, [ waiting for the moving of the waters;

4 for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool and stirred up the water; whoever then first, after the stirring up of the water, stepped in was made well from whatever disease with which he was afflicted.]

5 A man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.

6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had already been a long time in that condition, He said to him, ``Do you wish to get well?"

7 The sick man answered Him, ``Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I am coming, another steps down before me."

8 Jesus said to him, ``Get up, pick up your pallet and walk."

9 Immediately the man became well, and picked up his pallet and began to walk. Now it was the Sabbath on that day.

10 So the Jews were saying to the man who was cured, ``It is the Sabbath, and it is not permissible for you to carry your pallet."

11 But he answered them, ``He who made me well was the one who said to me, `Pick up your pallet and walk.'"

12 They asked him, ``Who is the man who said to you, `Pick up your pallet and walk'?"

13 But the man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away while there was a crowd in that place.

14 Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, ``Behold, you have become well; do not sin anymore, so that nothing worse happens to you."

15 The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

16 For this reason the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.

17 But He answered them, ``My Father is working until now, and I Myself am working."

18 For this reason therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

19 Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, ``Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner.

20 ``For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself is doing; and the Father will show Him greater works than these, so that you will marvel.

21 ``For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom He wishes.

22 ``For not even the Father judges anyone, but He has given all judgment to the Son,

23 so that all will honor the Son even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

24 ``Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.