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1 After
these things,
there was a
feast of the
Jews, and Jesus
went up to
Jerusalem.
2 Now
in Jerusalem by
the sheep gate,
there is a
pool, which is
called in Hebrew,
“Bethesda”, having five
porches.
3 In
these lay a
great multitude of
those who were
sick, blind, lame,
or paralyzed, waiting for
the moving of
the water;
4 for an angel went down at
certain times into the pool and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped
in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever
disease he had.
5 A
certain man was
there who had
been sick for
thirty-eight years.
6 When
Jesus saw him
lying there, and
knew that he
had been sick
for a long
time, he asked
him,
“Do you want
to be made
well?”
7 The sick
man answered him, “Sir, I have no
one to put
me into the
pool when the
water is stirred
up, but while
I’m coming,
another steps down
before me.”
8 Jesus
said to him,
“Arise, take up
your mat, and
walk.”
9 Immediately,
the man was
made well, and
took up his
mat and walked.
Now that day
was a Sabbath.
10 So
the Jews said
to him who
was cured, “It
is the Sabbath.
It is not
lawful for you
to carry the mat.”
11 He
answered them, “He
who made me
well said to
me,
‘Take up your
mat and
walk.’ ”
12 Then
they asked him, “Who
is the man
who said to
you,
‘Take up
your mat and
walk’?”
13 But
he who was
healed didn’t know
who it was,
for Jesus
had withdrawn, a
crowd being in
the place.
14 Afterward
Jesus found him
in the temple
and said to
him,
“Behold, you
are made well.
Sin no more, so
that nothing
worse happens to
you.”
15 The
man went away, and
told the Jews
that it was
Jesus who had
made him well.
16 For
this cause the
Jews persecuted
Jesus and sought
to kill him,
because he did
these things on
the Sabbath.
17 But Jesus
answered them,
“My Father is
still working,
so I am
working, too.”
18 For
this cause
therefore the Jews
sought all the
more to kill him,
because he not
only broke the
Sabbath, but also
called God his
own Father, making
himself equal with
God.
19 Jesus
therefore answered
them,
“Most certainly, I
tell you, the
Son can do
nothing of
himself, but
what he sees the
Father doing.
For whatever
things he does,
these the Son
also does
likewise.
20 For the Father
has affection for
the Son, and
shows him all
things that
he himself does.
He will show
him greater
works than these,
that you may
marvel.
21 For as the
Father raises
the dead and
gives them life,
even so the
Son also gives
life to whom
he desires.
22 For the Father
judges no one,
but he has
given all
judgment to the
Son,
23 that all may
honor the Son,
even as they
honor the Father.
He who doesn’t
honor the
Son doesn’t
honor the Father
who sent
him.
24 “Most certainly
I tell you,
he who hears my
word and
believes him who
sent me
has eternal life,
and doesn’t come
into judgment,
but has passed
out of death
into life.
25 Most certainly
I tell you,
the hour comes,
and now is,
when the dead
will hear the
Son of God’s
voice; and those
who hear will
live.
26 For as the
Father has life
in himself, even
so he gave
to the Son
also to have
life in himself.
27 He also gave
him authority to
execute judgment,
because he is
a son of
man.
28 Don’t marvel at
this, for the
hour comes in
which all who
are in the
tombs will hear
his voice
29 and will come
out; those who
have done good,
to the resurrection
of life; and
those who have
done evil, to
the resurrection of
judgment.
30 I can of
myself do
nothing. As
I hear, I judge;
and my judgment
is righteous,
because I don’t
seek my own
will, but the
will of my Father
who sent
me.
31 “If I testify
about myself, my
witness is
not valid.
32 It is another
who testifies
about me. I
know that the
testimony which
he testifies
about me is
true.
33 You have sent
to John, and
he has testified
to the truth.
34 But the
testimony which
I receive is
not from man.
However, I say
these things
that you may
be saved.
35 He was the
burning and
shining lamp,
and you were
willing to
rejoice for a
while in his
light.
36 But the
testimony which
I have is
greater than
that of John;
for the works
which the Father
gave me to
accomplish, the
very works that
I do, testify
about me, that
the Father
has sent me.
37 The Father
himself, who
sent me, has
testified about
me. You have
neither heard his
voice at any
time, nor seen
his form.
38 You don’t have
his word living
in you, because
you don’t
believe him whom
he sent.
39 “You search the
Scriptures, because
you think that
in them you
have eternal life;
and these are
they which
testify about me.
40 Yet you will
not come to
me, that you
may have life.
41 I don’t receive
glory from men.
42 But I know
you, that
you don’t have
God’s love in
yourselves.
43 I have come
in my Father’s
name, and
you don’t
receive me. If
another comes in
his own name,
you will receive
him.
44 How can you
believe, who
receive glory
from one another,
and you don’t
seek the glory
that comes from
the only
God?
45 “Don’t think
that I will
accuse you to
the Father.
There is one
who accuses you,
even Moses, on
whom you have
set your hope.
46 For if you
believed Moses,
you would
believe me; for
he wrote about
me.
47 But if
you don’t
believe his
writings, how
will you believe
my words?”