إنجيل القدّيس مرقس .56-47:6
لَمَّا كانَ المَسَاء، كانَتِ السَّفِينَةُ في وَسَطِ البُحَيْرَة، ويَسُوعُ وَحْدَهُ عَلى اليَابِسَة
ورَأَى التَّلامِيذَ مَنْهُوكِينَ مِنَ التَّجْذِيف، لأَنَّ الرِّيحَ كانَتْ مُخَالِفةً لَهُم، فجَاءَ إِلَيْهِم في آخِرِ اللَّيْلِ مَاشِيًا عَلَى البُحَيْرَة، وكانَ يُريدُ أَنْ يَتخَطَّاهُم
ولَمَّا رَآهُ التَّلامِيذُ مَاشِيًا عَلَى البُحَيْرَة، ظَنُّوهُ شَبَحًا فصَرَخُوا
لأَنَّهُم رأَوْهُ كُلُّهُم وٱضْطَرَبُوا. وفي الحَالِ كَلَّمَهُم يَسُوعُ وقَالَ لَهُم: ثِقُوا! أَنَا هُوَ، لا تَخَافُوا
وصَعِدَ إِلَيْهِم، إِلى السَّفِينَة، فسَكَنَتِ الرِّيح. ودَهِشُوا في أَنْفُسِهِم غَايَةَ الدَّهَش
لأَنَّهُم لَمْ يَفْهَمُوا مُعْجِزَةَ الأَرْغِفَةِ لِقَسَاوَةِ قُلُوبِهِم
ولَمَّا عَبَرُوا جَاؤُوا إِلى أَرْضِ جِنَّاشَر، وأَرْسَوا هُنَاك
ولَمَّا خَرَجُوا مِنَ السَّفِينَةِ عَرَفَهُ النَّاسُ حَالاً
وطَافُوا تِلْكَ النَّاحِيَةَ كُلَّها، وبَدَأُوا يَحْمِلُونَ مَنْ بِهِم سُوءٌ إِلى حَيْثُ كَانُوا يَسْمَعُونَ أَنَّهُ مَوْجُود
وحَيْثُما كانَ يَدْخُلُ قُرًى أَوْ مُدُنًا أَو ضِياعًا، كَانُوا يَضَعُونَ المَرْضَى في السَّاحَات، ويَتَوَسَّلُونَ إِلَيْهِ أَنْ يَلْمُسُوا وَلَو طَرَفَ رِدَائِهِ. وجَمِيعُ الَّذِينَ لَمَسُوهُ كانُوا يُشْفَون
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 5:1-16.
There was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Now there is in Jerusalem at the Sheep (Gate) a pool called in Hebrew Bethesda, with five porticoes.
In these lay a large number of ill, blind, lame, and crippled.
One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.
When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been ill for a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be well?”
The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; while I am on my way, someone else gets down there before me.”
Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your mat, and walk.”
Immediately the man became well, took up his mat, and walked. Now that day was a sabbath.
So the Jews said to the man who was cured, “It is the sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry your mat.”
He answered them, “The man who made me well told me, ‘Take up your mat and walk.'”
They asked him, “Who is the man who told you, ‘Take it up and walk’?”
The man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away, since there was a crowd there.
After this Jesus found him in the temple area and said to him, “Look, you are well; do not sin any more, so that nothing worse may happen to you.”
The man went and told the Jews that Jesus was the one who had made him well.
Therefore, the Jews began to persecute Jesus because he did this on a sabbath.