John 5
1 After this, there was a Jewish festival, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 In Jerusalem, near the Sheep Gate, there was a pool called in Hebrew Bethesda, with five colonnades.
3 A large number of sick people were lying in them: blind people, people who could not walk, and paralyzed people, ⟦waiting for the water to move⟧.
4 ⟦For from time to time an angel came down into the pool and stirred the water; then the first person to step in after the water was stirred became well, whatever disease he had.⟧
5 A man who had been suffering from his illness for thirty-eight years was there.
6 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew he had been in that condition for a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to get well?”
7 The sick man answered, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am making my way there, someone else gets in ahead of me.”
8 Jesus said to him, “Get up, pick up your mat, and walk.”
9 At once the man became well, picked up his mat, and began to walk. That day was a Sabbath.
10 So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and you are not allowed to carry your mat.”
11 But he answered them, “The one who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”
12 They asked him, “Who is the man who told you, ‘Pick it up and walk’?”
13 But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away, since there was a crowd in that place.
14 After this, Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “Look, you are well now. Do not sin anymore, so that something worse does not happen to you.”
15 The man went and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
16 That is why the Jews were persecuting Jesus: he was doing these things on the Sabbath.
17 But he answered them, “My Father is still working, and I too am working.”
18 So the Jews were trying even harder to kill him, because he was not only breaking the Sabbath but also calling God his own Father, making himself equal to God.
19 So Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I tell you: the Son can do nothing on his own, except what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does in the same way.
20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he does; and he will show him works greater than these, so that you will be amazed.
21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to whoever he wants.
22 For the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son,
23 so that everyone 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 Truly, truly, I tell you: whoever hears my word and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and does not come into judgment, but has already crossed over from death to life.
25 Truly, truly, I tell you: the hour is coming, and is here now, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear it will live.
26 For just as the Father has life in himself, so he has also granted the Son 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, because the hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice
29 and come out: those who have done good, to a resurrection of life; those who have done evil, to a resurrection of judgment.
30 I can do nothing on my own. I judge as I hear, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the one who sent me.”
31 “If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.
32 There is another who testifies about me, and I know that the testimony he gives about me is true.
33 You sent messengers to John, and he testified to the truth.
34 But I do not receive testimony from any person; I say these things so that you may be saved.
35 He was the lamp that burned and shone, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
36 But I have a testimony greater than John's: the works the Father gave me to complete, the very works I am doing, testify about me that the Father sent me.
37 And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You have never heard his voice or seen his form,
38 and you do not have his word abiding in you, because you do not believe the one he sent.
39 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and they are the ones that testify about me.
40 Yet you are unwilling to come to me to have life.
41 I do not receive glory from people.
42 But I know you: you do not have the love of God within you.
43 I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will receive him.
44 How can you believe when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
45 Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope.
46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me.
47 But if you do not believe what he wrote, how will you believe my words?”
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