RWebster - John - 5

5:1  After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

5:2  Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.

5:3  In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

5:4  For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was healed of whatever disease he had.

5:5  And a certain man was there, who had an infirmity thirty and eight years.

5:6  When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith to him, Wilt thou be healed?

5:7  The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.

5:8  Jesus saith to him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.

5:9  And immediately the man was healed, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.

5:10  The Jews therefore said to him that was cured, It is the sabbath: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.

5:11  He answered them, He that healed me, the same said to me, Take up thy bed, and walk.

5:12  Then they asked him, What man is that who said to thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?

5:13  And he that was healed knew not who it was: for Jesus had withdrawn himself, a multitude being in that place.

5:14  Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said to him, Behold, thou art cured: sin no more, lest a worse thing come to thee.

5:15  The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, who had healed him.

5:16  And therefore the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath.

5:17  But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh until now, and I work.

5:18  Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

5:19  Then answered Jesus and said to them, Verily, verily, I say to you, The Son can do nothing by himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for whatever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.

5:20  For the Father loveth the Son, and showeth him all things that himself doeth: and he will show him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.

5:21  For as the Father raiseth the dead, and giveth life to them ; even so the Son giveth life to whom he will.

5:22  For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment to the Son:

5:23  That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father who hath sent him.

5:24  Verily, verily, I say to you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but hath passed from death to life.

5:25  Verily, verily, I say to you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.

5:26  For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;

5:27  And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.

5:28  Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,

5:29  And shall come forth; they that have done good, to the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, to the resurrection of damnation.

5:30  I can of my own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who hath sent me.

5:31  If I bear witness concerning myself, my witness is not true.

5:32  There is another that beareth witness concerning me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth concerning me is true.

5:33  Ye sent to John, and he bore witness to the truth.

5:34  But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye may be saved.

5:35  He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.

5:36  But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness concerning me, that the Father hath sent me.

5:37  And the Father himself, who hath sent me, hath borne witness concerning me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.

5:38  And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.

5:39  Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

5:40  And ye will not come to me, that ye may have life.

5:41  I receive not honour from men.

5:42  But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.

5:43  I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.

5:44  How can ye believe, who receive honour one from another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?

5:45  Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.

5:46  For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote concerning me.

5:47  But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?