John 5

CHAPTER 5

The Healing at Bethesda

¹After these things there was ^aa feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

²Now there is in Jerusalem by ^athe sheep gate a pool, which is called ^bin ¹Hebrew ²Bethesda, having five porticoes.

³In these lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, and withered, ¹waiting for the moving of the waters;

⁴for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool and stirred up the water; whoever then first, after the stirring up of the water, stepped in was made well from whatever sickness with which he was afflicted.]

⁵And a man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.

⁶When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been sick a long time, He ^*said to him, “Do you wish to get well?”

⁷The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when ^athe water is stirred up, but while I am coming, another steps down before me.”

⁸Jesus ^*said to him, “^aGet up, pick up your mat and walk.”

⁹And immediately the man became well, and picked up his mat and began to walk.

^aNow it was the Sabbath on that day.

¹⁰So ^athe Jews were saying to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and ^bit is not lawful for you to carry your mat.”

¹¹But he answered them, “He who made me well was the one who said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”

¹²They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk’?”

¹³But the man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away while there was a crowd in that place.

¹⁴Afterward Jesus ^*found him in the temple and said to him, “Behold, you have become well; do not ^asin anymore, ^bso that nothing worse happens to you.”

¹⁵The man went away, and disclosed to ^athe Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

¹⁶And for this reason ^athe Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.

¹⁷But He answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I Myself am working.”

Jesus’ Equality with the Father

¹⁸For this reason therefore ^athe Jews ^bwere seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, ^cmaking Himself equal with God.

¹⁹Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, ^athe Son can do nothing from Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever ¹the Father does, these things the Son also does in the same manner.

²⁰“^aFor the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself is doing; and the Father will show Him ^bgreater works than these, so that you will marvel.

²¹“For just as the Father raises the dead and ^agives them life, even so ^bthe Son also gives life to whom He wishes.

²²“For not even the Father judges anyone, but ^aHe has given all judgment to the Son,

²³so that all will honor the Son even as they honor the Father. ^aHe who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

²⁴“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and ^abelieves Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and ^bdoes not come into judgment, but has ^cpassed out of death into life.

Two Resurrections

²⁵“Truly, truly, I say to you, ^aan hour is coming and now is, when ^bthe dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who ^chear will live.

²⁶“For just as the Father has life in Himself, even so He ^agave to the Son also to have life in Himself;

²⁷and He gave Him authority to ^aexecute judgment, because He is ¹the Son of Man.

²⁸“Do not marvel at this; for ^aan hour is coming, in which ^ball who are in the tombs will hear His voice,

²⁹and will come forth; ^athose who did the good deeds to a resurrection of life, those who committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment.

³⁰“^aI can do nothing from Myself. As I hear, I judge; and ^bMy judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will, but ^cthe will of Him who sent Me.

³¹“^aIf I alone bear witness about Myself, My witness is not ¹true.

³²“There is ^aanother who bears witness about Me, and I know that the witness which He gives about Me is true.

Witnesses to Jesus: The Father and the Scriptures

³³“You have sent to John, and he ^ahas borne witness to the truth.

³⁴“But ^athe witness I receive is not from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved.

³⁵“He was ^athe lamp that was burning and shining and you ^bwere willing to rejoice for ¹a while in his light.

³⁶“But the witness I have is greater than the witness of John; for ^athe works which the Father has given Me ^bto finish—the very works that I do—bear witness about Me, that the Father ^chas sent Me.

³⁷“And the Father who sent Me, ^aHe has borne witness about Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time nor seen His form.

³⁸“And you do not have ^aHis word abiding in you, for you do not believe Him whom He ^bsent.

³⁹“^1aYou search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is ^bthese that bear witness about Me;

⁴⁰and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life.

⁴¹“^aI do not receive glory from men;

⁴²but I know you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves.

⁴³“I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; ^aif another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

⁴⁴“How can you believe, when you ^areceive ¹glory from one another and you do not seek ^bthe ²glory that is from ^cthe only God?

⁴⁵“Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father; the one who accuses you is ^aMoses, in whom you have set your hope.

⁴⁶“For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for ^ahe wrote about Me.

⁴⁷“But ^aif you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”