Atta dat,
Jedus gone ta Jerusalem fa a Jew holiday feas.
Een Jerusalem,
a pool ob wata been dey by de place dey call “Sheep Gyate.”
De Jew people call dat pool Bethesda,
an dey been fibe poch close by dat wata.
A whole heapa sick people been gone leddown pon dem fibe poch.
Some dem been bline,
some been cripple op,
an some been paralyze.
[All dem beena wait fa de waata fa moob.
Fom time ta time one angel ob de Lawd come down fa stir op de wata.
Wen de wata moob,
de fus one wa git een de wata gwine be heal ob wasoneba ailment e hab.]
One man been dey wa been sick tirty-eight yeah.
Wen Jedus come,
e see de man leddown dey.
E know dat man been sick a long time,
so e aks um say,
“Ya wahn fa git well?”
De sick man ansa say,
“Sah,
A ain got nobody fa pit me een de wata wen e moob.
Ebry time A da try fa git een,
somebody beat me ta de wata.”
Den Jedus tell de man say,
“Git op fom dey.
Pick op ya mat an waak!”
All ob a sudden de man been well.
E pick op e mat an waak.
Now den,
dis ting happen pon de Jew Woshup Day.
So de Jew leada dem see de man wa been sick an done git well,
da tote e mat.
Dey tell um say,
“Dis yah we Woshup Day,
an e ginst we Law fa ya fa tote ya mat pon we Woshup Day.”
Dat man ansa say,
“De man wa mek me well tell me fa pick op me mat an waak.”
Den de Jew leada dem aks um say,
“Wa man tell ya fa do dat?”
De man wa Jedus been mek well ain know who dat been,
cause dey been a heapa people dey,
an Jedus done slip way.
Jedus find dat man eenside God House.
E tell um say,
“Look yah,
ya well now.
Mus dohn sin no mo,
or sompin mo wossa gwine happen ta ya.”
Den de man lef Jedus an gone fa tell de Jew leada dem say,
dat man wa mek um well,
e name Jedus.