OrthJBC - John - 5

5:1  After these things, there was a Chag (Feast) in Yehudah and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach went up to Yerushalayim.

5:2  Now there is in Yerushalayim at the Sha'ar HaTzon (Sheepgate) [Nechemyah 3:1,32; 12:39] a pool, the one being called in Aramaic, Beit-Zata, having chamasha colonnades.

5:3  In these were laying a multitude of invalids--ivrim (blind men), pisechim (lame persons), paralyzed,

5:5  and there was a certain man there SHELOSHIM U'SHEMONEH SHANAH [Devarim 2:14] having been in his machla (illness).

5:6  Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, seeing this man lying there, and having da'as that the man had been in this condition for a long time already, says to him, "Do you want to have refu'ah [Yeshayah 53:5]?"

5:7  In reply, the choleh (sick one) said, "Adoni, I have no one when the mayim is disturbed, to put me into the pool. While I am coming, someone steps into the pool ahead of me."

5:8  Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to him, "Rise up, take your mat and walk."

5:9  And immediately the man received his refu'ah (healing) and took his mat and was walking around. And that day was Shabbos.

5:10  So those of Yehudah were saying to the one having been granted refu'ah (healing), "It is Shabbos, so it is asur (prohibited), it is chillul Shabbos [desecration of Shabbat] for you to carry your mat." [Nechemyah 13:15-22; Yirmeyah 17:21]

5:11  But the man in reply said to them, "The One having given me refu'ah, that One said to me, "Take up your mat and walk!"

5:12  They asked him, "Who is haIsh (the Man) telling you to take up your mat and walk?""

5:13  But the one having been granted refu'ah (healing) did not have da'as who it is, for Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach slipped away-- there being a multitude in the place.

5:14  After these things Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach finds him in the Beis Hamikdash, and said to him, "Hinei, you have received your refu'ah. No longer commit averos, for fear that something worse happen to you."

5:15  The man went away and reported to the Yehudim that Yehoshua is the one having granted him his refu'ah,

5:16  and, because of this, those of Yehudah brought redifah (persecution) upon Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, because these things he was doing on Shabbos. THE SAMCHUT (AUTHORITY, AUTHORIZATION) OF REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH, BEN DOVID, BEN HAELOHIM, ADONEINU, MOREINU, V'RABBEINU (OUR L-RD, TEACHER AND MASTER) IS FOR THE MA'ASIM GEDOLIM OF THE OLAM HABAH, WHICH IS PRESENT IN HIS PERSON, BUT THOSE OF YEHUDAH, NOT UNDERSTANDING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HAAV AND HABEN (THAT IS, BETWEEN HASHEM AND HIS DVAR HASHEM) THINK LIKE THOSE OF THE OLAM HAZEH THINK, AND THEY DO NOT ENTER THE GREATER SHABBOS PRESENT IN HIS PERSON, SINCE THEY LACK EMUNAH AND ARE CONVINCED HE IS APPARENTLY NOT SHOMER SHABBOS AND ALSO A BLASPHEMER MAKING HIMSELF EQUAL WITH HASHEM

5:17  But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach in reply, said them, "Avi until now is working and I am working." [Bereshis 2:3]

5:18  Because of this, therefore, those of Yehudah were seeking all the more to kill Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, because not only was he not Shomer Shabbos, but also Rebbe was saying that his own Av was Hashem, thereby making himself equal with Elohim [1:1].

5:19  In reply, therefore, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying to them, "Omein, omein I say to you, HaBen is not able to do anything from himself except what he sees HaAv doing, for what things that One is doing, these things also the HaBen likewise is doing.

5:20  "For HaAv has ahavah for HaBen and all things He shows to Him which He does and ma'asim gedolim (greater works) than these He will show him that you may marvel.

5:21  "For just as HaAv raises the Mesim (dead ones) and makes them alive, so also HaBen makes alive whom he wills. [Devarim 32:39; Shmuel Alef 2:6; Melachim Bais 5:7; Hoshea 6:2]

5:22  "For not even HaAv judges anyone, but all din (judgment) Hashem has given to HaBen [Bereshis 18:25; Shofetim 11:27; Daniel 7:10,13-14]

5:23  "that kol Bnei Adam may honor HaBen as they honor HaAv. The one not honoring HaBen does not honor HaAv who sent him.

5:24  "Omein, omein, I say to you, that the one, hearing my dvar and having emunah in the One who sent me, has Chayyei Olam and does not come into the Mishpat Hashem, but has been transferred out of mavet (death) into Chayyim (Life).

5:25  "Omein, omein I say to you, that a sha'ah (hour) is coming and now is, when the Mesim (dead ones) will hear the kol (voice) of the Ben HaElohim and the ones having heard will live.

5:26  "For just as HaAv has Chayyim (Life) in himself [Devarim 30:20; Iyov 10:12; 33:4; Tehillim 36:10 (9)], so also HaBen he gave to have Chayyim (Life) in himself.

5:27  "And samchut (authority) he gave to him to make mishpat (judgment) because he is the Ben HaAdam [Daniel 7:13-14]. ATAH GIBOR L'OLAM ADONOI MECHAYYEI MESIM ATAH RAV L'HOSHI'AH

5:28  "Do not marvel at this. For a sha'ah (hour, time) is coming in which all the ones in the kevarim (graves) will hear the kol of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, [Yeshayah 26:19; Yechezkel 37:12]

5:29  "and will come out, the ones having practiced haTov to a Techiyas haMesim of Chayyim (Life), the ones having practised haRah to a Techiyas haMesim of Mishpat (Judgment). [Daniel 12:2]

5:30  "I am not able to do from myself anything. As I hear I judge, and mine is mishpat-tzedek [Yeshayah 28:6], because I do not seek my own ratson (will) but the ratson (will) of the One having sent me.[Bamidbar 16:28] THE SOLEMN EDUT FOR REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH

5:31  "If I give solemn edut (testimony) about myself, the edut of mine is not ne'emanah (reliable).

5:32  "There is another giving solemn edut about me, however, and I have da'as that the edut He testifies about me is ne'emanah (reliable).

5:33  "You (pl.) have sent to Yochanan and he has given solemn edut (testimony) to HaEmes (the Truth).

5:34  "Not that I accept edut from Bnei Adam, but I say these things that you may come to Yeshu'at Eloheinu.

5:35  "He [Yochanan] was a menorah burning and shining and you chose to exult for a time in his Ohr (Light); [Tehillim 132:16; Daniel 12:3]

5:36  "but l have edut (testimony) greater than Yochanan's. For the ma'asim which HaAv has given to me that I should make them shlemim (complete), these ma'asim which I do give solemn edut (testimony) about me, that HaAv has sent me.

5:37  "And HaAv who sent me has Himself given solemn edut (testimony) about me. You have neither heard His kol (voice) nor the visage of Hashem have you seen [Devarim 4:12],

5:38  "and the dvar Hashem you do not have abiding and dwelling in you, because you have no bittachon (trust), no emunah (faith) in the One whom Hashem has sent." [Yeshayah 26:10; 53:1; Yirmeyah 8:8] THE TRAGEDY OF THOSE WHO ARE OPEN TO PSEUDO-MESSIAHS BUT WILL NOT RECEIVE THE BIBLICALLY FORESEEN REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH OF THE NEVI'IM

5:39  "You search the Kitvei Hakodesh because you think in them you have Chayyei Olam. And those are the ones giving solemn edut about me.

5:40  "And you do not want to come to me that you may have Chayyim.

5:41  "I do not accept kavod (glory) from Bnei Adam.

5:42  "But I have had da'as of you, that the ahavas Hashem (the love of G-d) you do not have in yourselves.

5:43  "I have come b'Shem Avi and you do not accept me. If another comes in his own name, him you will accept.

5:44  "How are you able to have emunah, when you receive kavod from one another, and the kavod from the only Elohim HaEchad you do not seek? [Melachim Bais 19:15,19; Yeshayah 37:20; Daniel 3:45 Targum Ha-Shivim (Septuagint)]

5:45  "Do not think that I will accuse you before HaAv; however, there is one accusing you: Moshe, in whom you have set your tikvah. [Devarim 31:26-27]

5:46  "For if you were having emunah in Moshe, you would have had emunah in me, for he himself wrote concerning me.[Bereshis 3:15; Devarim 18:15]

5:47  "But if in the Kitvei Hakodesh of that one you lack emunah, how will you have emunah in my dvar?"