“Do you want to be healed?” Bryan Fischer here with the Life and Liberty Minute. At the pool of Bethesda, Jesus encountered a man who had been an invalid for 38 years. Jesus realized he had been there for a long time, reduced to begging because his legs didn’t work. Jesus makes eye contact with him, and asks him a question: “Do you want to be healed?” This sounds like a dumb question, but Jesus never asked a dumb question in His entire life. What He was asking him was this: If I heal you, you will no longer be able to beg and lay around by the side of this pool. You will need to get up and go to work every day, and begin to work with your own hands to supply your own needs and share with others. You aren’t going to be able to rely on welfare any longer. When Jesus saw he was willing not only to walk but to work, he said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” And that’s exactly what he did.