John 5
1 Sometime after this there was a Jewish Festival; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
After these things there was the feast of the Jews, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 There is in Jerusalem, near the sheep-gate, a bath with five colonnades round it. It is called in Hebrew “Bethesda.”
Now in Jerusalem, by the Sheep Gate, there is a pool called Bethesda, in Hebrew, which has five porches.
3 In these colonnades a large number of sick people were lying – blind, lame, and crippled.
In them a large number of sick people were lying—blind, lame, paralyzed—waiting for the moving of the water;
because an angel would go down from time to time into the pool and stir up the water—then the first one to get in after the stirring of the water became well of whatever disease that was holding him.
5 One man who was there had been crippled for thirty-eight years.
Now there was a certain man there who had been sick for 38 years.
6 Jesus saw the man lying there, and, finding that he had been in this state a long time, said to him, ‘Do you wish to be cured?’
Seeing this man lying there and knowing that he had already been sick a long time, Jesus says to him, “Do you want to get well?”
7 ‘I have no one, Sir,’ the sick man answered, ‘to put me into the bath when there is a troubling of the water, and, while I am getting to it, someone else steps down before me.’
The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to throw me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I am coming another gets in before me.”
8 ‘Stand up,’ said Jesus, ‘take up your mat, and walk.’
Jesus says to him, “Get up, pick up your pallet and walk!”
9 The man was cured immediately, and took up his mat and began walking.
Immediately the man became well and picked up his pallet and started to walk!
10 Now it was the Sabbath. So the religious authorities said to the man who had been cured, ‘This is the Sabbath; you must not carry your mat.’
But that day was a Sabbath, so the Jews said to the one who had been healed: “It's the Sabbath! You aren't allowed to carry the pallet.”
11 ‘The man who cured me,’ he answered, ‘said to me “Take up your mat and walk.”’
He answered them: “The one who made me well—He said to me, ‘Pick up your pallet and walk.’”
12 ‘Who was it,’ they asked, ‘that said to you “Take up your mat and walk”?’
So they asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your pallet and walk’?”
13 But the man who had been restored did not know who it was; for Jesus had moved away, because there was a crowd there.
But the man who was cured did not know who it was, because Jesus had disappeared, there being a crowd in the place.
14 Afterwards Jesus found the man in the Temple Courts, and said to him, ‘You are cured now; do not sin again, or something worse may happen to you.’
After these things Jesus found him in the temple and said to him: “See, you are well. Don't sin any more, so that something worse doesn't happen to you.”
15 The man went away, and told the authorities that it was Jesus who had cured him.
The man went off and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
16 And that was why they began to persecute Jesus – because he did things of this kind on the Sabbath.
So because of this the Jews began persecuting Jesus and trying to kill Him, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.
17 But Jesus replied, ‘My Father works to this very hour, and I work also.’
But Jesus answered them, “Until now, my Father works, I also work.”
18 This made the authorities all the more eager to kill him, because not only was he doing away with the Sabbath, but he actually called God his own Father – putting himself on an equality with God.
So because of this they wanted to kill Him all the more, because He was not only breaking the Sabbath but was even saying that God was His own Father, making Himself equal with God!
19 So Jesus made this further reply, ‘In truth I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself; he does only what he sees the Father doing; whatever the Father does, the Son does also.
Then Jesus answered and said to them: “Most assuredly I say to you, the Son is not able to do anything from Himself, except something He sees the Father doing; because whatever things He does, precisely these the Son also does.
20 For the Father loves his Son, and shows him everything that he is doing; and he will show him still greater things – so that you will be filled with wonder.
For the Father loves the Son and shows Him everything that He Himself is doing; and He will show Him greater works than these, so that you may marvel.
21 For, just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he pleases.
Now just as the Father raises the dead and gives life, just so the Son also gives life to whom He wishes.
22 The Father himself does not judge any one, but has entrusted the work of judging entirely to his Son,
In fact the Father does not judge anyone but has committed all the judging to the Son,
23 so that everyone may honour the Son, just as they honour the Father. The person who does not honour the Son fails to honour the Father who sent him.
so that all will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.
24 In truth I tell you that the person who listens to my message and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and does not come under condemnation, but has already passed out of death into life. (aiōnios g166)
“Most assuredly I say to you that the one listening to my word and believing on Him who sent me has eternal life; he will not go into judging but has moved out of the death into the Life. (aiōnios g166)
25 In truth I tell you that a time is coming, indeed it is already here, when the dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and when those who listen will live.
“Most assuredly I say to you that a time is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of the God, and those who listen will live.
26 For, just as the Father has inherent life within him, so also he has granted to the Son to have inherent life within him;
Because just as the Father has life in Himself, just so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself;
27 and, because he is Son of Man, he has also given him authority to act as judge.
furthermore He gave Him the authority to pass judgment, because He is Son of Man.
28 Do not wonder at this; for the time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice,
Do not marvel at this, because a time is coming in which all those in the graves will hear His voice
29 and will come out – those who have done good rising to life, and those who have lived evil lives rising for condemnation.
and will come out—those who did good things into the resurrection of life, but those who practiced evil things into the resurrection of condemnation.
30 I can do nothing of myself; I judge as I am taught; and the judgment that I give is just, because my aim is not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
I am not able to do anything from myself. As I hear, I judge, and my judging is just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the Father who sent me.
31 ‘If I bear testimony to myself, my testimony is not trustworthy;
“If I testify about myself, my testimony is not valid.
32 it is another who bears testimony to me, and I know that the testimony which he bears to me is trustworthy.
There is another who testifies about me, and I know that the testimony that He gives about me is true.
33 You have yourselves sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.
You have sent to John and he has testified to the truth.
34 But the testimony which I receive is not from people; I am saying this for your salvation.
Yet I do not accept the testimony from a man; but I say these things so that you may be saved.
35 He was the Lamp that was burning and shining, and you were ready to rejoice, for a time, in his light.
That man was a burning, shining lamp, and for a time you were willing to be glad in his light.
36 But the testimony which I have is of greater weight than John’s; for the work that the Father has given me to carry out – the work that I am doing – is in itself proof that the Father has sent me as his messenger.
But I have a greater testimony than John's, because the works that the Father gave me to complete—the very works that I am doing—they testify about me that the Father has sent me.
37 The Father who has sent me has himself borne testimony to me. You have neither listened to his voice, not seen his form;
“Further, the Father who sent me has Himself testified about me. You have neither heard His voice nor seen His form at any time.
38 and you have not taken his message home to your hearts, because you do not believe him whom he sent as his messenger.
Nor do you have His word abiding in you, because you do not believe on the very one whom He sent.
39 You search the scriptures, because you think that you find in them immortal life; and, though it is those scriptures that bear testimony to me, (aiōnios g166)
You examine the Scriptures because in them you think you have eternal life, yet they are the very ones that testify about me. (aiōnios g166)
40 you refuse to come to me to have life.
But you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.
41 ‘I do not receive honour from people,
“I do not accept glory from people.
42 but I know this of you, that you have not the love of God in your hearts.
Rather I have come to know you, that you do not have the love of God in you.
43 I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not receive me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
I have come in my Father's name and you do not receive me; should another come in his own name, him you will receive.
44 How can you believe in me, when you receive honour from one another and do not desire the honour which comes from the only God?
How can you believe, who receive glory from men and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
45 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father; your accuser is Moses, on whom you have been resting your hopes.
“Do not suppose that I will accuse you before the Father. Moses is the one who accuses you, on whom you have set your hope.
46 For, had you believed Moses, you would have believed me, for it was of me that Moses wrote;
Because if you really believed Moses you would believe me, because he wrote about me.
47 but, if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my teaching?’
But since you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my sayings?”
