John 5

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1. 1After this there was a Jewish festival, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2. 2In Jerusalem, near the Sheep Gate, there is a pool called Bethesda in Hebrew, which has five covered walkways.
3. 3In these lay a great number of sick people — blind, lame, and withered — waiting for the stirring of the water.
4. 4For an angel would go down at a certain time into the pool and stir the water. The first person to step in after the water was stirred would be healed of whatever disease they had.
5. 5One man was there who had been suffering from his condition for thirty-eight years.
6. 6When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been in that condition a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be made well?"
7. 7The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get there, someone else steps in ahead of me."
8. 8Jesus said to him, "Get up, pick up your mat, and walk."
9. 9Immediately the man was made well, picked up his mat, and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath.
10. 10So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your mat."
11. 11He answered them, "The man who made me well told me, 'Pick up your mat and walk.'"
12. 12They asked him, "Who is the man who told you, 'Pick up your mat and walk'?"
13. 13But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.
14. 14Later, Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, "See, you have been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you."
15. 15The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
16. 16Because of this, the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill him, because he had done these things on the Sabbath.
17. 17But Jesus answered them, "My Father is working until now, and I am working."
18. 18This made the Jews all the more determined to kill him, because he had not only broken the Sabbath but had also said that God was his own Father, making himself equal with God.
19. 19Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing by himself, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.
20. 20For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he himself is doing. And he will show him greater works than these, so that you will be amazed.
21. 21For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whoever he chooses.
22. 22The Father judges no one but has given all judgment to the Son,
23. 23so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
24. 24Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.
25. 25Truly, truly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
26. 26For just as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself.
27. 27And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man.
28. 28Do not marvel at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice
29. 29and come out — those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
30. 30I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the Father who sent me.
31. 31If I testify about myself, my testimony is not valid.
32. 32There is another who testifies about me, and I know that his testimony about me is true.
33. 33You sent messengers to John, and he testified to the truth.
34. 34Not that I accept testimony from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved.
35. 35He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing for a time to rejoice in his light.
36. 36But I have a greater testimony than John's, for the works that the Father has given me to accomplish — the very works that I am doing — testify about me that the Father has sent me.
37. 37And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You have never heard his voice nor seen his form.
38. 38And you do not have his word abiding in you, because you do not believe the one he sent.
39. 39You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life, and it is they that testify about me.
40. 40Yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.
41. 41I do not receive honor from men.
42. 42But I know you, that you do not have the love of God in you.
43. 43I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
44. 44How can you believe, when you receive honor from one another and do not seek the honor that comes from God alone?
45. 45Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have set your hope.
46. 46For if you believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me.
47. 47But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?"