John 5

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John 5
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The Healing at the Pool
5 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. 2
Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called
Bethesda[a] and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3 Here a great
number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. [4] [b] 5
One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him
lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he
asked him, “Do you want to get well?”

7 “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the
water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”

8 Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” 9 At once the man
was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.

The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, 10 and so the Jewish leaders said
to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry
your mat.”

11 But he replied, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and
walk.’ ”

12 So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?”

13 The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into
the crowd that was there.

14 Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again.
Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.” 15 The man went away and told
the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.

The Authority of the Son

16 So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders
began to persecute him. 17 In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always
at his work to this very day, and I too am working.” 18 For this reason they tried
all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even
calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

19 Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by
himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father
does the Son also does. 20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does.
Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these, so that you will be
amazed. 21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the
Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it. 22 Moreover, the Father judges no
one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son, 23 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 “Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has
eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life. 25
Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear
the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live. 26 For as the Father has
life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. 27 And he
has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man.

28 “Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves
will hear his voice 29 and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to
live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned. 30 By myself
I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not
to please myself but him who sent me.

Testimonies About Jesus

31 “If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true. 32 There is another who
testifies in my favor, and I know that his testimony about me is true.

33 “You have sent to John and he has testified to the truth. 34 Not that I accept
human testimony; but I mention it that you may be saved. 35 John was a lamp that
burned and gave light, and you chose for a time to enjoy his light.

36 “I have testimony weightier than that of John. For the works that the Father has
given me to finish—the very works that I am doing—testify that the Father has sent
me. 37 And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You have
never heard his voice nor seen his form, 38 nor does his word dwell in you, for you
do not believe the one he sent. 39 You study[c] the Scriptures diligently because
you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that
testify about me, 40 yet you refuse to come to me to have life.

41 “I do not accept glory from human beings, 42 but I know you. I know that you do
not have the love of God in your hearts. 43 I have come in my Father’s name, and
you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept
him. 44 How can you believe since you accept glory from one another but do not seek
the glory that comes from the only God[d]?

45 “But do not think I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on
whom your hopes are set. 46 If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he
wrote about me. 47 But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to
believe what I say?”

Footnotes
John 5:2 Some manuscripts Bethzatha; other manuscripts Bethsaida
John 5:4 Some manuscripts include here, wholly or in part, paralyzed—and they
waited for the moving of the waters. 4 From time to time an angel of the Lord would
come down and stir up the waters. The first one into the pool after each such
disturbance would be cured of whatever disease they had.
John 5:39 Or 39 Study
John 5:44 Some early manuscripts the Only One
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