John5

¹After this there was a feast of the Jews , and Jesus went up to Jerusalem .

²Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool , in Aramaic called Bethesda , which has five roofed colonnades .

³In these lay a multitude of invalids — blind , lame , and paralyzed .

⁵One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years .

⁶When 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 ?

⁷The 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 .

⁸Jesus said to him , Get up, take up your bed , and walk .

⁹And at once the man was healed , and he took up his bed and walked . Now that day was the Sabbath .

¹⁰So the Jews said to the man who had been healed , It is the Sabbath , and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed .

¹¹But he answered them , The man who healed me , that man said to me , Take up your bed , and walk .

¹²They asked him , Who is the man who said to you , Take up your bed and walk ?

¹³Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was , for Jesus had withdrawn , as there was a crowd in the place .

¹⁴Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him , See , you are well ! Sin no more , that nothing worse may happen to you .

¹⁵The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him .

¹⁶And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus , because he was doing these things on the Sabbath .

¹⁷But Jesus answered them , My Father is working until now , and I am working .

¹⁸This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him , because not only was he breaking the Sabbath , but he was even calling God his own Father , making himself equal with God .

¹⁹So Jesus said to them , Truly , truly , I say to you , the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing . For whatever the Father does , that the Son does likewise .

²⁰For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing . And greater works than these will he show him , so that you may marvel .

²¹For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life , so also the Son gives life to whom he will .

²²The Father judges no one , but has given all judgment to the Son ,

²³that 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 .

²⁴Truly , truly , I say to you , whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life . He does not come into judgment , but has passed from death to life .

²⁵Truly , truly , I say to you , an 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 .

²⁶For as the Father has life in himself , so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself .

²⁷And he has given him authority to execute judgment , because he is the Son of Man .

²⁸Do not marvel at this , for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice

²⁹and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life , and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment .

³⁰I can do nothing on my own . As I hear , I judge , and my judgment is just , because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me .

³¹If I alone bear witness about myself , my testimony is not true .

³²There is another who bears witness about me , and I know that the testimony that he bears about me is true .

³³You sent to John , and he has borne witness to the truth .

³⁴Not that the testimony that I receive is from man , but I say these things so that you may be saved .

³⁵He was a burning and shining lamp , and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light .

³⁶But the testimony that I have is greater than that of John . For the works that the Father has given me to accomplish , the very works that I am doing , bear witness about me that the Father has sent me .

³⁷And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me . His voice you have never heard , his form you have never seen ,

³⁸and you do not have his word abiding in you , for you do not believe the one whom he has sent .

³⁹You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life ; and it is they that bear witness about me ,

⁴⁰yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life .

⁴¹I do not receive glory from people .

⁴²But I know that you do not have the love of God within you .

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 .

⁴⁴How can you believe , when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God ?

⁴⁵Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father . There is one who accuses you : Moses , on whom you have set your hope .

⁴⁶For if you believed Moses , you would believe me ; for he wrote of me .

⁴⁷But if you do not believe his writings , how will you believe my words ?