John 5
The Healing at the Pool on the Sabbath
After this there was a afeast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 Now there is in Jerusalem by athe Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. 3 In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and aparalyzed. 5 One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” 7 The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.” 8 Jesus said to him, a“Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” 9 aAnd at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked.
bNow that day was the Sabbath. 10 So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and ait is not lawful for you to take up your bed.” 11 But he answered them, “The man who healed me, that man said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and walk.’” 12 They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?” 13 Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for aJesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place. 14 Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well! aSin no more, bthat nothing worse may happen to you.” 15 The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him. 16 And this was why the Jews awere persecuting Jesus, bbecause he was doing these things on the Sabbath. 17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”
Jesus Is Equal with God
18 This was why the Jews awere seeking all the more to kill him, bbecause not only was he cbreaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God dhis own Father, emaking himself equal with God.
The Authority of the Son
19 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, athe Son bcan do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise. 20 For athe Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. And bgreater works than these will he show him, so that cyou may marvel. 21 For as the Father araises the dead and bgives them life, so calso the Son gives life dto whom he will. 22 aFor the Father judges no one, but bhas given all judgment to the Son, 23 that all may honor the Son, just as they ahonor the Father. bWhoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. 24 Truly, truly, I say to you, awhoever hears my word and bbelieves him who sent me has eternal life. He cdoes not come into judgment, but dhas passed from death to life.
25 “Truly, truly, I say to you, aan hour is coming, and is now here, when bthe dead will hear cthe voice of the Son of God, and those who hear bwill live. 26 aFor as the Father has life in himself, bso he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. 27 And he ahas given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man. 28 Do not marvel at this, for aan hour is coming when ball who are in the tombs will hear his voice 29 and come out, athose who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
Witnesses to Jesus
30 a“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and bmy judgment is just, because cI seek not my own will dbut the will of him who sent me. 31 aIf I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not true. 32 There is aanother who bears witness about me, and bI know that the testimony that he bears about me is true. 33 aYou sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth. 34 Not that athe testimony that I receive is from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved. 35 He was a burning and ashining lamp, and byou were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. 36 But athe testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For bthe works that the Father has given me cto accomplish, the very works that I am doing, dbear witness about me that ethe Father has sent me. 37 And the Father who sent me ahas himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, bhis form you have never seen, 38 and ayou do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe the one whom he has sent. 39 aYou search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and bit is they that bear witness about me, 40 yet ayou refuse to come to me that you may have life. 41 aI do not receive glory from people. 42 But aI know that you do not have bthe love of God within you. 43 I have come ain my Father’s name, and byou do not receive me. cIf another comes in his own name, you will receive him. 44 How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and ado not seek the glory that comes from bthe only God? 45 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you: Moses, aon whom you have set your hope. 46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for ahe wrote of me. 47 But aif you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”
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