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Blessed are those who have mercy
Who give to the poor and fast and pray
The Holy Spirit will fill their hearts
The Son will show them mercy on Judgment Day.

There was a pool in Bethesda
Near the great temple in Jerusalem
Where those aicted stayed near by
The blind, the palsied and the lame.

For every now and then to the pool
Came an angel from heaven
Moving the water and blessing it
Healing power to the water was given.

Whoever got in first would be healed
As soon after the angel came
So all the sick waited by the pool
To get in first was each man's aim.

Blessed are those who have mercy...

A man with illness, thirty-eight years
Was seen by Jesus lying in there
Jesus asked him if he wanted to be healed
The man said, "I have no friends who care.

Whenever I try to get in the pool
Someone will get in before me
I have no strength to move in fast
No hope for healing that I can see."

Jesus said, "Get up now and walk
You will have strength to carry your bed."
At once, the man was totally healed
And did exactly what Jesus said.

Blessed are those who have mercy...

The Jews then saw the man walking
Carrying the bed on which he used to lay
They told him that it was not lawful
To carry his bed on a Sabbath day.

The man answered that it was the One
Who healed me, ordered me to do so.
"Who is this Man?" they asked him
As Jesus moved away, the man didn't know.

Later that day in the temple
Jesus said to the man as he walked through
"Now that you are well, sin no more
That nothing worse may befall you."

Blessed are those who have mercy...

The man went back to the Jews and said,
"It was Jesus who made me walk."
Persecuting Jesus the Jews then sought
Saying the Sabbath commandment He broke.

Jesus then told them, "My Father is still
Working in this world and so I do."
That made the Jews even more intent
To kill Him as their hate to Jesus grew.

No matter how many years we have
A sickness of the body or of the soul
God will forgive if we repent
And heal and bless us, one and all.

Blessed are those who have mercy...