Yeshua heals an infirmed man on the Sabbath but is condemned by the Pharisees for breaking the Sabbath and commanding another to do likewise. After speaking with Yeshua, they seek to find ways to have him killed.

1 And it came to pass that Yeshua, Miriam, and the remaining disciples that were with them went into Jerusalem during the time of Passover, but they did not celebrate it as did the tribes of Judah, the Levi, and the other Children of Israel.
2 Now there was in Jerusalem, by the sheep market, a pool, which was called Bethesda in Hebrew.
3 In and around this pool lay a great multitude of the blind and the withered, waiting for the waters of the pool to move in sudden waves.
4 For it was believed that from time to time, an angel would come down and blow upon the water, stirring the waves in only a place, and whosoever should get into the water and get to that place first would be healed of their infirmity.
5 A certain man was there, named Gesari, who had been weakened and enfeebled for thirty-eight years. Each day of his later life, he had pulled himself from his sleeping space to the edge of the pool, hoping that someday, he would be the one to reach the waters stirred by the angel and be healed of his infirmity.
6 When Yeshua came upon the Bethesda pool, he saw Gesari and knew that he had been infirmed for most of his life, and walking up to him, he asked, “Do you desire to be made whole?”
7 Gesari looked up with hope alive in his eyes and said, “Sir, I desire it so greatly that I have crawled on my elbows to this spot every day for more years than I can remember. But I have no servant or friend to put me in the water when it is stirred, so always there is someone else who steps in before me and is healed while I remain as I am.”
8 Yeshua looked upon him and asked, “Are all who step first into the water after it has been stirred healed?”
9 Gesari shook his head and answered, “No, only a few, but even knowing a healing only happens for some, I still have faith God will bless me if I can just show him I am faithful enough to make it into the water before all others.”
10 Yeshua continued to question him, asking, “Why do you think some are healed and some are not?”
11 Gesari answered him, saying, “It is by the grace of God that an angel comes to stir the water, but God does not reward the wicked. Therefore, only the righteous are healed.”
12 “Why then do the unrighteous go into the water, if only the righteous are healed?” Yeshua asked.
13 “Because they do not believe it is an angel that stirs the water, but magic they know not,” Gesari answered. “Therefore, they enter in ignorance and take the place of those like me who live in righteousness and could truly be healed in the waters.”
14 “And how is it you are righteous?” Yeshua inquired.
15 “In my heart, I love God,” Gesari answered. “Many have said that God has cursed me and wonder why I do not revile him. But I know that I have become as I am that I might grow stronger in my faith. God rewards those who endure, and I shall never deny him or turn my back upon him.
16 Though I am crippled, I have learned many things over the years from lying here each day and observing the people and the way they are, things I never would have learned if I had not become as I am.
17 Therefore, I still thank God each day for all the things he has allowed me to learn because of my infirmity.”
18 Hearing this, Yeshua had a tear that fell from his eye and ran down his cheek, and turning to Miriam and his disciples, he said, “In this man, see the faith of ages.”
19 Then turning to the man, he asked, “Do you know who I am?”
20 Gesari shook his head, saying, “No, kind sir, I am afraid I know you not. But I perceive that you are a teacher or a preacher, for you dress well, but simply, and there are several in your party, and they watch and listen to you with great attention.”
21 Then Yeshua said unto him, “I am Yeshua of Nazareth. I am the Alpha and the Omega, and I say unto you now, good brother of light, Rise up; take your bed and walk. Remain righteous in your words and deeds, lest a worse thing befall you.”
22 Immediately, the man stood up and was made whole. Throwing his hands up into the air, he shouted with joy, and then fell at the feet of Yeshua, kissing them and giving thanks. Standing up sprightly, he grabbed his bed, picked it up, and walked away to go to his family to show them the miracle that had been wrought.
23 Though there were many other of the infirmed lying about the Bethesda pool, none asked Yeshua to heal them, and they turned their faces from him, for it was perceived that he had broken the Sabbath.
24 As he was walking away from the pool of Bethesda, Gesari encountered three Pharisees, and seeing him whole, they confronted him, asking, “How is it that we saw you yesterday and you were enfeebled and infirmed as you have always been, and now you are a new man made whole? Cursed man, you reward the miracle God has wrought by breaking the Sabbath and carrying your bed?”
25 Gesari protested their accusations, saying, “For thirty-eight long years, I have been infirmed. But on this day, I have been made whole. A man came up to me and told me to stand and pick up my bed and walk, and I knew in my heart that as he commanded so it would be. So I stood and picked up my bed and walked as he bade me do.”
26 “Who is this great Sabbath breaker?” the Pharisees inquired.
27 Gesari pointed back toward the Bethesda pool, where Yeshua remained with his disciples, and he said, “It was that tall man there, Yeshua of Nazareth, whom the others gather around. But I assure you he is a man of God.”
28 “How can you, an ungrateful Sabbath breaker, recognize a man of God?” the Pharisees taunted.
29 And they approached Yeshua and asked, “Was it you that healed a man on the Sabbath and then commanded him to break the Sabbath by carrying his bed?”
30 Yeshua, knowing the time had come to reveal himself to his adversaries, answered them, saying, “My Father in Heaven does good works upon this day, and as I have seen my Father do, so do I likewise. And a man who carries a bed on the Sabbath, not for work, but in celebration of a miracle of God, is honoring Elohim and the Sabbath.”
31 The Pharisees were beside themselves in anger, for not only had he broken the Sabbath and taught others to do the same, but he had also called God his Father, making himself equal with God. And in unison, they cried out, “Blasphemer!”
32 But Yeshua answered and said unto them, “Verily, I say unto you: The Son can do nothing of himself, but only what he has seen the Father first do. And whatsoever the Father does, these things also shall the Son do likewise.
33 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all the things which he does, and he will show him greater works than what has happened here today.
34 Verily, you shall yet see the Son do mighty works for which even you will marvel.
35 For as the Father rises up the dead and quickens them back to life, so the Son will quicken whom he will.
36 And the Father shall judge no man, but the fate of a man’s eternity shall be judged by the Son, for the Father has committed all judgment unto him.
37 This, that all men might honor the Son, even as they honor the Father.
38 He that honors not the Son, honors not the Father who has sent him.
39 Verily, verily, I say unto you he that lives according to my words and the example of my life, believes on he who sent me and shall inherit everlasting life. They shall never come into the throes of condemnation and shall pass in peace and bliss from death back into life.
40 Verily, I say unto you: The hour is coming when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear and follow that which they hear shall live.
41 For as the Father is a life unto himself, so is the Son a life unto himself. They are not one, but two, but the two are one in purpose.
42 “Nor is there a Father without a Mother, for then how could there be a Son?
43 And the Father and the Mother have given the Son authority to execute all the judgments of Heaven, for he is the Son of the Elohim.
44 Marvel not at this, for the hour is coming in which all that are in the graves shall hear my voice, and they shall come forth: they that have done good unto the resurrection of life and exaltation and they who have done evil unto the resurrection of torment and damnation.
45 I can of my own self do nothing. As I see and hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will or glory, but the will and glory of my Father and Mother who have sent me.
46 If I alone bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.
47 But you know the other who has borne witness of me; even Yochanan the Baptizer and all who love God know that witness is true.
48 You went unto Yochanan and heard his words and his testimony of me, for he bore witness of the truth he knew more than any man.
49 But I need not be upheld by the testimony of any man, for the very spirit of God testifies of me in the heart of any true seeker of the light.
50 But I speak to you of Yochanan, that you might remember the man and his testimony and turn your heart from cold to warm, that you might yet be saved.
51 There is a greater witness in the world of the Son than that of Yochanan, and that is the works which the Father has given me to finish, the same works which I now do. And greater things shall you yet see and hear of, bearing witness of me, and know that the Elohim have sent me.
52 The Father himself has borne witness of me by the power of Heaven which I hold. And the voice of the Mother ever speaks my name into the ears of those who would hear.
53 But you have never seen his shape or heard her voice, for Elohim cannot dwell in unclean vessels.
54 You have not had his words abide in you and have not felt her spirit stirring your soul. Therefore, he whom the Elohim have sent, you believe not.
55 Search the scriptures, for in them, you imagine you have eternal life, and in them, you will find testimony of me.
56 But even knowing the truth, like a fire burning inside that you cannot deny, you still, in your stubbornness and devotion to the law and tradition, will not come unto me that you might have life.
57 But I do not expect to receive honor from the men of the world, for how can they honor he whom they do not know.
58 But it is by your choice that you know me not, nor desire to learn of me and the Celestine Light I have brought. Therefore, I know that you do not have the love or light of God within you.
59 I have come in my Father’s name, and you receive me not. Yet if another Pharisee were to come in his own name and do the things that I do, you would receive him and honor him.
60 How can you seek the honor of one another and not seek the honor that comes only from God?
61 Do you think that it will be me who accuses you to the Father? It will not be me, but Moses whom you revere. He will accuse, and I shall judge you and weigh your soul in the balance by the resonance in your heart, which will be testified to by the actions of your life and the words you have spoken.
62 But Moses will first judge you as hypocrites, for you say you believe Moses and believe the words he wrote, but you do not believe, for he wrote of me.
63 And if you believe not the words of Moses, whom you revere, how then shall you believe my words?”
64 The Pharisees were beside themselves with anger but could find no words to respond to him. Angrily, they stormed away and returned to their conclaves in Jerusalem to spread ill words about Yeshua of Nazareth.
65 From that day forth, they sought to find ways in which they might have him killed, for not only had he broken the Sabbath and commanded others to do likewise and said that God was his Father, but he had also said that there was a Mother in Heaven, even as many among the Gentiles and pagans believed.