(a) John 5: 2-18:
(i) In Jerusalem, by the Sheep Gate, was a pool which, in Hebrew, is called Bethsaida, where many invalids (sick people, blind, lame and paralysed) rushed into it to be healed.
(ii) One of the paralyzed was a man who had been sick for thirty-eight years.
(iii) Jesus saw him and knew that the man had been lying there for a long time.
(iv) Jesus asked him 'Do you want to be healed?.
(v) The man replied that he had no man to carry him into the pool when the water was troubled.
(vi) And other often got there before him.
(vii) Jesus commanded the man, 'Rise, take up your pallet, and walk'.
(viii) And the man was healed immediately.
(ix) He took up his pallet and walked.
(x) The Jews began to argue with the man that since it was Sabbath, it was not lawful for man to carry his pallet.
(xi) The man replied the critics that the man who healed him only directed him to take up his pallet and walk.
(xii) The Jews asked the man about the identity of the person who healed him.
(xiii) The man could not ascertain the identity of Jesus since He had, withdrawn.
(xiv) Later, Jesus met the man in the temple and said to him, 'See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse befall you'.
(xv) The healed man went and told the Jews that it was Jesus who healed him.
(xvi) There, the Jews persecuted Jesus.
(xvii) Jesus asserted, `My father is working still, and I am working'.
(xviii) For breaking the Sabbath and calling God his Father, thus equating himself with God, the Jews pressed further to kill him.

(b) Two reasons why Jesus performed healing miracles:
(i) Out of compassion
(ii) Out of love
(iii) Out of his divine nature
(iv) Out of necessity
(v) To destroy the work of darkness/enemy
(vi) To save or deliver mankind
(vii) To show his authority as son of God
(viii) To make people believe.