John 5

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

²Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool called in Hebrew Bethzatha, having five colonnades.

³In these lay a great multitude of those who were ailing — blind, lame, paralyzed — waiting for the movement of the water.

⁵Now there was a certain man there who had been in his infirmity for thirty-eight years.

⁶Jesus, having seen this man lying there, and knowing that he had already been there a long time, says to him, 'Do you want to become well?'

⁷The ailing man answered him, 'Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am making my way, another steps down ahead of me.'

⁸Jesus says to him, 'Rise, take up your mat and walk.'

⁹And immediately the man became well, and he took up his mat and was walking. Now it was the Sabbath on that day.

¹⁰The Jews therefore were saying to the healed man, 'It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your mat.'

¹¹But he answered them, 'The one who made me well — that one said to me, "Take up your mat and walk."'

¹²They therefore asked him, 'Who is the man who said to you, "Take up your mat and walk"?'

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

¹⁴After these things Jesus finds him in the temple and said to him, 'See, you have become well; sin no more, lest something worse happen to you.'

¹⁵The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

¹⁶And because of this the Jews were persecuting Jesus and were seeking to kill him, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

¹⁷But Jesus answered them, 'My Father is working until now, and I also am working.'

¹⁸Because of this, therefore, the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

¹⁹So Jesus answered and said to them, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son is not able to do anything of himself except what he sees the Father doing; for whatever that one does, these things the Son does likewise.'

²⁰For the Father loves the Son and shows him all things that he himself does, and he will show him greater works than these so that you may marvel.

²¹For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wills.

²²For the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,

²³so that all may 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.

²⁴Truly, truly, I say to you, the one who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and does not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.

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

²⁶For just as the Father has life in himself, so also he has given to the Son to have life in himself,

²⁷and has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is Son of Man.

²⁸Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming in which all those in the tombs will hear his voice

²⁹and will come out — those who have done good to a resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to a resurrection of judgment.

³⁰I am not able to do anything of myself; as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of him who sent me, the Father.

³¹If I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not true.

³²There is another who bears witness about me, and I know that the testimony that he bears about me is true.

³³You have sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth.

³⁴But I do not receive testimony from man; rather, I say these things so that you may be saved.

³⁵He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

³⁶But I have a testimony greater than that of John; for the works that the Father has given me to accomplish — the very works that I am doing — bear witness about me that the Father has sent me.

³⁷And the Father who sent me, he himself has borne witness about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time nor seen his form,

³⁸and you do not have his word abiding in you, because the one whom he sent — him you do not believe.

³⁹You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is those very Scriptures that bear witness about me,

⁴⁰yet you are not willing to come to me that you may have life.

⁴¹I do not receive glory from people,

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

⁴³I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me; if another comes in his own name, that one you will receive.

⁴⁴How can you believe, you who receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?

⁴⁵Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you, Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

⁴⁶For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for it was about me that he wrote.

⁴⁷But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?