This translation is from the New Jerusalem Bible. Other translations can be accessed at the bolded hyperlink below. The entire chapter is linked in order to provide context.
Information about the meaning the original Greek of what seem to be key words is provided in blue.
Portions highlighted in yellow at the end of this post tell us something about God’s nature or our relationship to Him.
A link to a collection of other scriptures addressing principles similar to those set out in this scripture is provided at the end of this post.
After this there was a Jewish festival, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.2Now in Jerusalem next to the Sheep Pool there is a pool called Bethesda in Hebrew, which has five porticos; 3and under these were crowds of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed 4for at intervals the angel of the Lord came down into the pool, and the water was disturbed, and the first person to enter the water after this disturbance was curedof any ailment he suffered from.
5One man there had an illness which had lasted thirty-eight years, 6and when Jesus saw him lying there and knew he had been in that condition for a long time, he said, 'Do you want to be wellagain?' 7Sir,' replied the sick man, 'I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is disturbed; and while I am still on the way, someone else gets down there before me.' 8Jesus said, 'Get up, pick up your sleeping-mat and walk around.' 9The man was cured at once, and he picked up his mat and started to walk around.
Now that day happened to be the Sabbath, 10so the Jews said to the man who had been cured, 'It is the Sabbath; you are not allowed to carry your sleeping-mat.'11He replied, 'But the man who cured me told me, "Pick up your sleeping-mat and walk around." '12They asked, 'Who is the man who said to you, "Pick up your sleeping-mat and walk around"? ' 13The man had no idea who it was, since Jesus had disappeared, as the place was crowded. 14After a while Jesus met him in the Temple and said, 'Now you are well again, do not sin any more, or something worse may happen to you.' 15The man went back and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had cured him. 16It was because he did things like this on the Sabbath that the Jews began to harass Jesus. 17His answer to them was, 'My Father still goes on working, and I am at work, too.' 18But that only made the Jews even more intent on killing him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he spoke of God as his own Father and so made himself God's equal.
went up = ἀναβαίνω = anabainō Blue Letter Bible to go up, to ascend; climbing up; to come upon, to arrive in a place; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon go up, mount; embark; Georg Autenrieth, A Homeric Dictionary go up, ascend (to); goes abroad among’ men; embark
sick = ἀσθενέω = astheneō Blue Letter Bible to lack strength, to be weak, sick; impotent folk; to be weak, feeble; powerless; to be weak in means, needy, poor; to be unable to wield and hold sway over others; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, An Intermediate Greek-EnglishLexicon to be weak, feeble, sickly
paralyzed = ξηρός = xēros Blue Letter Bible dry; of members of the body deprived of their natural juices, shrunk, wasted, withered; shrunken; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon dry, dried up; withered, lean
cured, well = ὑγιής = hygiēs Blue Letter Biblesound, whole, healthy; to make one whole i.e. restore him to health, wholesome, fit; metaphorically, teaching which does not deviate from the truth; wise; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon healthy, sound in body; safe and sound, in good condition, unbroken; sound in mind, virtuous; logically sound
illness = ἀσθένεια = astheneia Blue Letter Bible want of strength, weakness, infirmity; feebleness; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon want of strength, weakness, feebleness, sickliness; to be needy;to be too weak to do a thing, not to be able
said = λέγω = legō Blue Letter Bibleto say, to ask; commanding, or bidding; to call, to call by name; pronouncing, telling or relating; to gather, reckon, account; to tell; affirm over, maintain; to exhort, advise, to command, direct; to call by name, to call, name; to "lay" forth; to asseverate, affirm, aver, maintain; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon to say, speak; declare; to tell one to do; to speak to the point or purpose; to speak (emphatically)
cured= θεραπεύω = therapeuō Blue Letter Bibleto heal, restore to health; to care for the sick, to treat, cure, heal;to serve, do service; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon to be an attendant, do service; take care of one's person;treat medically; cultivate; mend
met = εὑρίσκω = heyriskō Blue Letter Bible to find, either with previous search or without; to find out by enquiry, or to learn, discover; to find for oneself, to procure, get, obtain, with the suggestion of accomplishing the end which had been in view;to come upon, hit upon, to meet with; get, obtain, perceive, see;Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon find out, discover; devise, invent; get, gain; bring about, acquire; fetch
sin = ἁμαρτάνω = hamartanō Blue Letter Bible trespass; to be without a share in; to miss the mark; to err, be mistaken; to miss or wander from the path of uprightness; to do or go wrong; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon miss the mark; fail of one's purpose, go wrong; mistake; fail of having, be deprived of; do wrong, err, sin; frustrate
working, work = ἐργάζομαι = ergazomai Blue Letter Bible to work, work out, perform; produce, perform; to cause to exist, produce; to work for, earn by working, to acquire; labor for; minister about; it is opposite to inactivity or idleness; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon work, labor, esp. of husbandry, but also of all manual labor, of slaves, of quarrymen;produces an effect;work at, make; do, perform;work a material; till the land;earn by working; work at, practice;work at a trade or business, traffic, trade
What this scripture tells us about God, his ways:
there was a Jewish festival, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem
Jesus saw him lying there and knew he had been in that condition for a long time
Jesus said, 'Get up, pick up your sleeping-mat and walk around.' The man was cured at once
the man who curedme
Jesus met him in the
My Father still goes on working, and I am at work, too
he spoke of God as his own Father and so made himself God's equal.
Scriptures addressing similar principles are collected at Wisdom Principles—God Loves and Calls Us to Him, In Spite of our Sin
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