John 5:1–23

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.