John 5
1 After this, there was a Jewish festival so Jesus went to Jerusalem.
After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 Now near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem is a pool called Bethzatha in Hebrew, with five porches beside it.
Now there is in Jerusalem a pool near the Sheep-gate, called in the Hebrew, Bethesda.
3 Crowds of sick people were lying in these porches—those who were blind, lame, or paralyzed.
It has five colonnades. In these there used to lie a great crowd of sick people - blind, lame, paralyzed.
5 One man who was there had been sick for thirty-eight years. Jesus looked at him, knowing he had been lying there for long time, and asked him,
And there was one man there for thirty-eight years in his infirmity.
6 “Do you want to be healed?”
When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to get well?"
7 “Sir,” the sick man answered, “I don't have anyone to help me get into the pool when the water is stirred. While I'm trying to get there, someone always gets in before me.”
"Sir," answered the sick man, "I have no man to put me into the pool whenever the water is troubled; and while I am trying to come, some one else steps down before me."
8 “Stand up, pick up your mat, and start walking!” Jesus told him.
"Rise," said Jesus, "take up your bed and go walking away."
9 Immediately the man was healed. He picked up his mat and started walking. Now the day that this happened was the Sabbath.
Instantly the man became well, and he took up his bed and started to walk. Now it was Sabbath on that day;
10 So the Jews said to the man who'd been healed, “This is the Sabbath! It's against the law to carry a mat!”
so the Jews kept saying to the man who had been cured. "It is the Sabbath Day; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed."
11 “The man who healed me told me to pick up my mat and start walking,” he replied.
He replied, "The man who healed me told me to take up my bed and walk."
12 “Who's this person who told you to carry your mat and walk?” they asked.
"Who is it," they asked, "that said to you, ‘take up your bed and go walking away’?"
13 However, the man who'd been healed didn't know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the surrounding crowd.
But he who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had moved away, as there was a crowd in that place.
14 Later on Jesus found the man in the Temple, and told him, “Look, now you've been healed. So stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.”
Afterward Jesus found him in the Temple, and said to him. "Look! You have become well. Do not go on sinning, lest a worse thing befall you."
15 The man went and told the Jews it was Jesus who had healed him.
The man went to and told the Jews that it was Jesus who made him well;
16 So the Jews started to harass Jesus because he was doing things on the Sabbath.
and because of this the Jews began to persecute Jesus, because he had done it on the Sabbath.
17 But Jesus told them, “My Father is still working, and so am I.”
But he answered them, "My Father has continued working until now, and I am working too."
18 This was why the Jews tried even harder to kill him, for not only did he break the Sabbath but also called God his Father, making himself equal with God.
For this reason the Jews continued to seek the more eagerly to put him to death, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was actually speaking of God as his own Father, thus making himself of God’s equal.
19 Jesus explained to them, “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can only do what he sees the Father doing. Whatever the Father does the Son does as well.
So Jesus answered them in these words. "In solemn truth I tell that the Son cannot do anything of himself, except what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, that the Son does also.
20 For the Father loves the Son, and reveals to him everything he does; and the Father will show to him even more incredible things that will completely amaze you.
"For the Father loves the Son, and shows him every thing that he himself is doing. And greater deeds than these will he show him, that you may wonder.
21 For just as the Father gives life to those he resurrects from the dead, in the same way the Son also gives life to those that he wants.
"For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them alive, even so the Son makes whom he will alive.
22 The Father judges no one. He has given to the Son all the authority to judge,
"The Father indeed does not judge any one, but has given all judgment to the Son,
23 so that everyone may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who doesn't honor the Son doesn't honor the Father who sent him.
"in order that all may honor the Son even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor Son, does not honor the Father who sent him.
24 I tell you the truth: those who follow what I say and trust the one who sent me have eternal life. They won't be condemned, but have gone from death to life. (aiōnios g166)
"I tell you solemnly that he who listens to my messages and believes Him who sent me, has eternal life. He will not come under condemnation, but has passed out of death into life. (aiōnios g166)
25 I tell you the truth: The time is coming—in fact it's here already—when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live!
"Solemnly I tell you that the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear shall live.
26 Just as the Father has life-giving power in himself, so has he given the Son the same life-giving power in himself.
"For as the Father has life in himself, so also has he granted to the Son to have life in himself.
27 The Father also granted the authority for judgment to him, for he is the Son of man.
"And he has given him authority to pronounce judgment, because he is Son of man.
28 Don't be surprised at this, for the time is coming when all those in the grave will hear his voice
"Do not wonder at this, because an hour is coming in which all who are in their graves shall hear his voice and shall come forth again;
29 and will rise again: those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of condemnation.
"those who have done good into a resurrection of life, and those who have practised evil to a resurrection of condemnation.
30 I can do nothing by myself. I judge based on what I'm told, and my decision is right, for I'm not doing my own will but the will of the one who sent me.
"I can of my own self do nothing. As I listen, I judge, and my own judgment is just, because I am not seeking my own will, but the will of Him who sent me.
31 If I were to make claims about myself, such claims wouldn't be valid;
"If I bear testimony concerning myself, my testimony is not valid.
32 but someone else gives evidence about me, and I know what he says about me is true.
"Another bears testimony to me, and I know that the testimony which he bears concerning me is valid.
33 You asked John about me, and he told the truth,
"You yourselves sent to John, and he has been and is a witness to the truth.
34 but I don't need any human endorsement. I'm explaining this to you so you can be saved.
"(Though for myself I accept no witness from man; I only mention that you may be saved.)
35 John was like a brightly-burning light, and you were willing to enjoy his light for a while.
"That man was the Lamp-burning and shining - and you were willing for a time rejoice in his light.
36 But the evidence I'm giving is greater than John's. For I am doing the work that the Father gave me to do,
"But I have testimony greater than that of John; for the work which the Father has given me to bring to completion - the work which I am doing - bears testimony concerning me, that the Father has sent me.
37 and this is the proof that the Father sent me. The Father who sent me, he himself speaks on my behalf. You've never heard his voice, and you've never seen what he looks like,
"And the Father who sent me has himself borne testimony concerning me. None of you has heard his at any time or seen him,
38 and you don't accept what he says, because you don't trust in the one he sent.
nor had his word dwelling within you, because you do not believe him whom he sent.
39 You search the Scriptures because you think that through them you'll gain eternal life. But the evidence they give is in support of me! (aiōnios g166)
"You are searching the Scriptures because you suppose that in tem you have eternal life; and though these are they that bear witness concerning me, (aiōnios g166)
40 And yet you don't want to come to me so that you might live.
"you will not come to me that you may have life.
41 I'm not looking for human approval
"I am not receiving honor from men, but I know you,
42 —I know you, and that you don't have God's love in you.
"that you have not the love of God in yourselves.
43 For I've come to represent my Father, and you won't accept me; but if someone comes representing themselves, then you accept them!
"I am come in the name of my Father and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, him you will receive.
44 How can you trust in me when you look for praise from one another and yet you don't look for praise from the one true God?
"How can you believe when you receive glory from, one another, and have no desire for the glory which comes from the only God?
45 But don't think I will be making accusations about you to the Father. It's Moses who is accusing you, the one in whom you place such confidence.
"Do not imagine that I shall accuse you to the Father. Moses is your accuser, on whom you build your hopes.
46 For if you really trusted Moses you would trust in me, because he wrote about me.
"For if you believed Moses you would believe me, for he wrote about me.
47 But since you don't trust what he said, why would you trust what I say?”
And if you do not believe his writings, how will you ever believe my words?"
