Today we see Jesus back in Jerusalem for an unnamed festival. He goes to the pool near the Sheep Gate. Around the pool are large numbers of people - blind, lame and paralysed. These are the ailments that we Christians often suffer from: blindness, we cannot see where Jesus is leading us; lameness and paralysis, perhaps we can see but have difficulty walking or even moving along Christ's Way. During this Lenten season let us hear Jesus asking us the question he puts to the man: "Do you want to be well again? Do you want to be made whole again?" Jesus wastes no time. "Rise up! Pick up your sleeping-mat and walk." The man is immediately cured and walks away. Again we have in the words of Jesus the intimation of resurrection to new life of which Jesus is the Source: "I am the Resurrection and the Life." Later, Jesus and the man meet in the Temple. The man is told to complete his experience of healing by abandoning a life of sin, bringing body and spirit into full harmony and wholeness. This is not to say that Jesus is implying that the man had been a cripple because of his sin. But what he is saying is that physical wholeness needs to be matched by spiritual wholeness, the wholeness of the complete person.