The Healing at the Pool on the Sabbath

¹After this there was a ofeast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

²Now there is in Jerusalem by pthe Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic1 called Bethesda,2 which has five roofed colonnades. ³In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and qparalyzed.3 ⁵One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. ⁶When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” ⁷The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.” ⁸Jesus said to him, r“Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” ⁹rAnd at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked.

sNow that day was the Sabbath. ¹⁰So the Jews4 said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and tit is not lawful for you to take up your bed.” ¹¹But he answered them, “The man who healed me, that man said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and walk.’” ¹²They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?” ¹³Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for uJesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place. ¹⁴Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well! vSin no more, wthat nothing worse may happen to you.” ¹⁵The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him. ¹⁶And this was why the Jews xwere persecuting Jesus, ybecause he was doing these things on the Sabbath. ¹⁷But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”

Jesus Is Equal with God

¹⁸This was why the Jews zwere seeking all the more to kill him, abecause not only was he bbreaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God chis own Father, dmaking himself equal with God.

The Authority of the Son

¹⁹So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, ethe Son fcan do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father5 does, that the Son does likewise. ²⁰For gthe Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. And hgreater works than these will he show him, so that iyou may marvel. ²¹For as the Father jraises the dead and kgives them life, so lalso the Son gives life mto whom he will. ²²nFor the Father judges no one, but ohas given all judgment to the Son, ²³that all may honor the Son, just as they phonor the Father. qWhoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. ²⁴Truly, truly, I say to you, rwhoever hears my word and sbelieves him who sent me has eternal life. He tdoes not come into judgment, but uhas passed from death to life.

²⁵“Truly, truly, I say to you, van hour is coming, and is now here, when wthe dead will hear xthe voice of the Son of God, and those who hear wwill live. ²⁶yFor as the Father has life in himself, zso he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. ²⁷And he ahas given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man. ²⁸Do not marvel at this, for van hour is coming when ball who are in the tombs will hear his voice ²⁹and come out, cthose who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

Witnesses to Jesus

³⁰d“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and emy judgment is just, because fI seek not my own will gbut the will of him who sent me. ³¹hIf I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not true. ³²There is ianother who bears witness about me, and jI know that the testimony that he bears about me is true. ³³kYou sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth. ³⁴Not that lthe testimony that I receive is from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved. ³⁵He was a burning and mshining lamp, and nyou were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. ³⁶But lthe testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For othe works that the Father has given me pto accomplish, the very works that I am doing, qbear witness about me that rthe Father has sent me. ³⁷And the Father who sent me shas himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, this form you have never seen, ³⁸and uyou do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe the one whom he has sent. ³⁹vYou search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and wit is they that bear witness about me, ⁴⁰yet xyou refuse to come to me that you may have life. ⁴¹yI do not receive glory from people. ⁴²But zI know that you do not have athe love of God within you. ⁴³I have come bin my Father's name, and cyou do not receive me. dIf another comes in his own name, you will receive him. ⁴⁴How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and edo not seek the glory that comes from fthe only God? ⁴⁵Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you: Moses, gon whom you have set your hope. ⁴⁶For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for hhe wrote of me. ⁴⁷But iif you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”