For this morning, we're going to be here in John chapter 5.

So if you'll take your Bibles and go to John chapter 5, if you're new here to Cornerstone,

we go straight through the Bible, cover to cover, and then we start over and do it again.

And so we're here in our journey through the Bible in John chapter 5.

And I'm going to read the first nine verses.

John 5, starting at verse 1.

It says, after this, there was a feast of the Jews.

And Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool,

which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great

multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water.

Four, an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water and then whoever

stepped in first after the stirring of the water, and then whoever stepped in first

after the stirring of the water was made well of whatever disease he had.

Verse 5, now a certain man was there who had an infirmity 38 years.

When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he already had been in that condition a long

time, he said to him, do you want to be made well?

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. Jesus said to him, rise, take up your bed,

and walk. And immediately the man was, rise, take up your bed and walk.

And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked.

Let's pause there and pray.

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