Bible reference John 5:1-9

‘One day Jesus was in the big, important city of Jerusalem (ask children to repeat name)

In Jerusalem there was a special pool of water. The people believed that when the water started to move that the first person to get into the water would be made better. So every day lots of people who were unwell sat around the pool and waited.

Now, Jesus was walking near to the pool and he saw a man who had been unable to walk for a long, long time. He asked him, ‘Do you want to get better?’

The man said, ‘When the water moves there is no one to help me to get into the water and someone else always gets there first.’

Jesus listened to the man and then he told him, ‘ Get up, pick up the mat you are lying on and walk.’

And that’s exactly what the man did. He got up and picked up the mat he’d been lying on and he walked! He was so happy!

Jesus was able to make the man walk because he is the Son of God.’

Craft Idea – we decorated footprints