5After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ²Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool called in Aramaic Bethzatha,^a which has five porticoes. ³In these were lying a large number of those who were sick, blind, lame, paralyzed.^b ⁵And a certain man was there who had been thirty-eight years in his sickness. ⁶Jesus, when he^* saw this one lying there and knew that he had been sick^* a long time already, said to him, “Do you want to become well?” ⁷The one who was sick answered him, “Sir, I do not have anyone that, whenever the water is stirred up, could put me into the pool. But while^c I am coming, another goes down before me.” ⁸Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk!” ⁹And immediately the man became well and picked up his mat and began to walk.^* (Now it was the Sabbath on that day.)

¹⁰So the Jews were saying to the one who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not permitted for you to pick up the mat!”^d ¹¹But he answered them, “The one who made me well—that one said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk!’ ” ¹²So they asked him,^e “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your mat^* and walk?’ ” ¹³But the one who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn while^* a crowd was in the place.

Equal with God

¹⁴After these things Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “Look, you have become well! Sin no longer, lest something worse happen to you.” ¹⁵The man went and reported to the Jews that Jesus was the one who made him well. ¹⁶And on account of this the Jews began to persecute^* Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. ¹⁷But he answered^f them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.” ¹⁸So on account of this the Jews were seeking even more to kill him, because he not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God his own Father, thus^* making himself equal with God.

The Authority of the Son

¹⁹So Jesus answered and said to them, “Truly, truly I say to you, the Son can do nothing from himself except what he sees the Father doing. For whatever that one does, these things also the Son does likewise. ²⁰For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything that he himself is doing. And greater works than these he will show him, so that you will be astonished. ²¹For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them^* alive, thus also the Son makes alive whomever he wishes. ²²For the Father does not judge anyone, but he has given all judgment to the Son, ²³in order that all people^* will honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

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Footnotes

aThe majority of later manuscripts read “Bethesda,” while other early manuscripts read “Bethsaida”
bThe majority of later manuscripts add the following words: “waiting for the moving of the water. 4 For an angel of the Lord from time to time went down in the pool and stirred up the water. So the one who went in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he suffered.”
*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“saw”) which is understood as temporal
*The phrase “been sick” is not in the Greek text, but is supplied from the context
cLiterally “during which time”
*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to walk”)
dSome manuscripts have “your mat”
eSome manuscripts have “They asked him”
*In Greek the direct object (“your mat”) is not in the Greek text but the repetition is implied from the previous verse
*Here “while” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“was”)
*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to persecute”)
fSome manuscripts have “Jesus answered”
*Here “thus” is supplied as a component of the participle (“making”) which is understood as result
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
*The word “people” is not in the Greek text but is implied