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said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?” 13Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for uJesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place. 14Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well!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?”
Footnotes
- 1 5:2 Or Hebrew
- 2 5:2 Some manuscripts Bethsaida
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Some manuscripts insert, wholly or in part, waiting for the moving of the water;
4 for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool, and stirred the water: whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had - 4 5:10 The Greek word Ioudaioi refers specifically here to Jewish religious leaders, and others under their influence, who opposed Jesus in that time; also verses 15, 16, 18
- 5 5:19 Greek he
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