John 5:1–23

After these things was a festival day of the Jews: and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

²Now there is at Jerusalem a pond, called Probatica, which in Hebrew is named Bethsaida, having five porches.

³In these lay a great multitude of sick, of blind, of lame, of withered: waiting for the moving of the water.

⁴And an angel of the Lord descended at certain times into the pond and the water was moved. And he that went down first into the pond after the motion of the water was made whole of whatsoever infirmity he lay under.

⁵And there was a certain man there that had been eight and thirty years under his infirmity.

⁶Him when Jesus had seen lying, and knew that he had been now a long time, he saith to him: Wilt thou be made whole?

⁷The infirm man answered him: Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pond. For whilst I am coming, another goeth down before me.

⁸Jesus saith to him: Arise, take up thy bed and walk.

⁹And immediately the man was made whole: and he took up his bed and walked. And it was the sabbath that day.

¹⁰The Jews therefore said to him that was healed: It is the sabbath. It is not lawful for thee to take up thy bed.

¹¹He answered them: He that made me whole, he said to me: Take up thy bed and walk.

¹²They asked him therefore: Who is that man who said to thee: Take up thy bed and walk?

¹³But he who was healed knew not who it was: for Jesus went aside from the multitude standing in the place.

¹⁴Afterwards, Jesus findeth him in the temple and saith to him: Behold thou art made whole: sin no more, lest some worse thing happen to thee.

¹⁵The man went his way and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him whole.

¹⁶Therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath.

¹⁷But Jesus answered them: My Father worketh until now; and I work.

¹⁸Hereupon therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he did not only break the sabbath but also said God was his Father, making himself equal to God.

¹⁹Then Jesus answered and said to them: Amen, amen, I say unto you, the Son cannot do any thing of himself, but what he seeth the Father doing: for what things soever he doth, these the Son also doth in like manner.

²⁰For the Father loveth the Son and sheweth him all things which himself doth: and greater works than these will he shew him, that you may wonder.

²¹For as the Father raiseth up the dead and giveth life: so the Son also giveth life to whom he will.

²²For neither does the Father judge any man: but hath given all judgment to the Son.

²³That all men may honour the Son, as they honour the Father. He who honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father who hath sent him.