5:1 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish feasts.
5:2 Now in Jerusalem, by the Sheep Gate, there is a pool that in Hebrew is called Bethesda. It has five porticos,
5:3 and in these a large number of invalids used to lie, people who were blind, lame, and paralyzed, waiting for the movement of the water. [
5:4 For occasionally an angel of the Lord would come down into the pool and stir up the water. The first one into the pool after each such disturbance would be cured of whatever disease he had.]
5:5 A man who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
5:6 When Jesus saw him lying there and was aware that he had been ill for a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to get well?”
5:7 The invalid answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am still on my way, someone else steps into the pool ahead of me.”
5:8 Jesus said to him, “Rise! Take up your mat and walk!”
5:9 Immediately, the man was cured, and he took up his mat and began to walk. Now that day was a Sabbath.
5:10 Therefore, the Jews said to the man who had been cured, “Today is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry your mat.”
5:11 He replied, “The man who cured me said to me, ‘Take up your mat and walk!’ ”
5:12 They asked him, “Who is the man who told you to take it up and walk?”
5:13 But the man who had been cured did not know who it was, for Jesus had disappeared into the crowd that was there.
5:14 Later, Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Do not sin anymore, so that nothing worse happens to you.”
5:15 The man went away and told the Jews that Jesus was the man who had made him well.
5:16 Therefore, the Jews began to harass Jesus because he was doing such things on the Sabbath.
5:17 However, Jesus responded to them, saying, “My Father is still working, and I am at work as well.”
5:18 For this reason, the Jews became even more determined to kill him, because he was not only breaking the Sabbath but also calling God his own Father, making himself equal to God.
5:19 Jesus replied to them, saying, “Amen, amen, I say to you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does.
5:20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything that he himself is doing. And he will show him even greater works than these, so that you might be astonished.
5:21 “Indeed, just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so does the Son give life to anyone he chooses.
5:22 The Father judges no one, for he has entrusted all judgment to the Son,
5:23 so that all may honor the Son as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
5:24 “Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever hears my words and believes in the one who sent me possesses eternal life. He will not come to judgment but has passed from death to life.
5:25 “Amen, amen, I say to you, the hour is coming, indeed it is already here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and all those who hear it will live.
5:26 For just as the Father has life in himself, so also he has granted the Son to have life in himself.
5:27 And he has also granted him the power to pass judgment, because he is the Son of Man.
5:28 “Do not be astonished at this, for the hour is coming when all those who are in their graves will hear his voice
5:29 and will come forth from their graves. Those who have done good deeds will rise to life, while those who have done evil will rise to judgment.
5:30 “I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek to do not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
5:31 “If I were to testify about myself, my testimony would not be true.
5:32 However, there is another who testifies about me, and I know that his testimony is true, the testimony he bore concerning me.
5:33 You sent messengers to John, and he has testified to the truth.
5:34 Not that I accept such human testimony, but I say these things so that you may be saved.
5:35 “John was a burning and shining lamp, and for a time you were willing to exult in his light.
5:36 But I have testimony that is greater than John’s. The works that my Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.
5:37 “And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You have not heard his voice or seen his form,
5:38 and you do not have his word abiding in you, because you do not believe him whom he has sent.
5:39 “Search the Scriptures carefully because you believe that through them you will gain eternal life. Even they testify on my behalf.
5:40 Yet you refuse to come to me to receive that life.
5:42 Moreover, I know that you do not have the love of God in your hearts.
5:43 I have come in the name of my Father, yet you do not accept me. But if another should come in his own name, you will accept him.
5:44 How can you believe when you accept praise from one another, yet you do not seek the praise that comes from the only God?
5:45 “Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. You have placed your hope in Moses, and he is the one who will accuse you.
5:46 If you truly believed Moses, you would have believed in me, for it is about me that he wrote.
5:47 But since you do not believe what he wrote, how will you believe what I say?”
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