1 After these things, there was a feast of
the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate,
there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew,
“Bethesda”, having five porches.
3 In these lay a great multitude of those
who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed,
waiting for the moving of the water;
4 for an angel went down at certain times
into the pool and stirred up the water.
Whoever stepped in first after the stirring
of the water was healed of whatever disease
he had.†
5 A certain man was there who had been
sick for thirty-eight years.
6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and
knew that he had been sick for a long time,
he asked him, “Do you want to be made
well?”
7 The sick man answered him, “Sir, I
have no one to put me into the pool when
the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming,
another steps down before me.”
8 Jesus said to him, “Arise, take up your
mat, and walk.”
9 Immediately, the man was made well,
and took up his mat and walked.
Now that day was a Sabbath.
10 So the Jews said to him who was cured,
“It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to
carry the mat.”
11 He answered them, “He who made me
well said to me, ‘Take up your mat and
walk.’ ”
12 Then they asked him, “Who is the man
who said to you, ‘Take up your mat and
walk’?”
13 But he who was healed didn’t know
who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a
crowd being in the place.
14 Afterward Jesus found him in the temple
and said to him, “Behold, you are made
well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse
happens to you.”
15 The man went away, and told the Jews
that it was Jesus who had made him well.
16 For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus
and sought to kill him, because he did
these things on the Sabbath.
17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father
is still working, so I am working, too.”
18 For this cause therefore the Jews
sought all the more to kill him, because he
not only broke the Sabbath, but also called
God his own Father, making himself equal
with God.
19 Jesus therefore answered them, “Most
certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing
of himself, but what he sees the Father
doing. For whatever things he does, these
the Son also does likewise.
20 For the Father has affection for the
Son, and shows him all things that he himself
does. He will show him greater works
than these, that you may marvel.
21 For as the Father raises the dead and
gives them life, even so the Son also gives
life to whom he desires.
22 For the Father judges no one, but he
has given all judgment to the Son,
23 that all may honor the Son, even as
they honor the Father. He who doesn’t
honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father
who sent him.
24 “Most certainly I tell you, he who hears
my word and believes him who sent me
has eternal life, and doesn’t come into
judgment, but has passed out of death into
life.
25 Most certainly I tell you, the hour
comes, and now is, when the dead will
hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who
hear will live.
26 For as the Father has life in himself,
even so he gave to the Son also to have life
in himself.
27 He also gave him authority to execute
judgment, because he is a son of man.
28 Don’t marvel at this, for the hour
comes in which all who are in the tombs
will hear his voice
29 and will come out; those who have
done good, to the resurrection of life; and
those who have done evil, to the resurrection
of judgment.
30 I can of myself do nothing. As I hear,
I judge; and my judgment is righteous,
because I don’t seek my own will, but the
will of my Father who sent me.
31 “If I testify about myself, my witness is
not valid.
32 It is another who testifies about me. I
know that the testimony which he testifies
about me is true.
33 You have sent to John, and he has
testified to the truth.
34 But the testimony which I receive is
not from man. However, I say these things
that you may be saved.
35 He was the burning and shining lamp,
and you were willing to rejoice for a while
in his light.
36 But the testimony which I have is
greater than that of John; for the works
which the Father gave me to accomplish,
the very works that I do, testify about me,
that the Father has sent me.
37 The Father himself, who sent me, has
testified about me. You have neither heard
his voice at any time, nor seen his form.
38 You don’t have his word living in you,
because you don’t believe him whom he
sent.
39 “You search the Scriptures, because
you think that in them you have eternal
life; and these are they which testify about
me.
40 Yet you will not come to me, that you
may have life.
41 I don’t receive glory from men.
42 But I know you, that you don’t have
God’s love in yourselves.
43 I have come in my Father’s name, and
you don’t receive me. If another comes in
his own name, you will receive him.
44 How can you believe, who receive
glory from one another, and you don’t seek
the glory that comes from the only God?
45 “Don’t think that I will accuse you to
the Father. There is one who accuses you,
even Moses, on whom you have set your
hope.
46 For if you believed Moses, you would
believe me; for he wrote about me.
47 But if you don’t believe his writings,
how will you believe my words?”
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