Common - John - 5

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

5:2  Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches.

5:3  In these lay a multitude of disabled people, blind, lame, paralyzed.

5:5  One man who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

5:6  When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been in this condition for a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be made well?"

5:7  The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down before me."

5:8  Jesus said to him, "Rise, take up your bed, and walk."

5:9  And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath.

5:10  So the Jews said to the man who was cured, "It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed."

5:11  But he answered them, "The man who made me well said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and walk.’"

5:12  They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed, and walk’?"

5:13  Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in that place.

5:14  Afterward, Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "See, you are well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse may happen to you."

5:15  The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

5:16  For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

5:17  But Jesus answered them, "My Father is working still, and I am working."

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

5:19  Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but only what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, the Son also does.

5:20  For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does; and he will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel.

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

5:22  For the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,

5:23  that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

5:24  Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me, has eternal life; and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

5:25  Truly, truly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live.

5:26  For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself,

5:27  and has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man.

5:28  Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming when all who are in the graves will hear his voice

5:29  and come forth—those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.

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

5:31  "If I bear witness of myself, my testimony is not true.

5:32  There is another who bears witness of me, and I know that the testimony which he bears of me is true.

5:33  You have sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth.

5:34  Not that the testimony which I receive is from man; but I say this that you may be saved.

5:35  He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a time in his light.

5:36  But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John; for the works which the Father has given me to finish, these very works which I am doing, bear witness of me, that the Father has sent me.

5:37  And the Father who sent me has himself testified of me. You have never heard his voice, nor seen his form.

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

5:39  You search the Scriptures, because in them you think that you have eternal life; and these are they that testify of me.

5:40  Yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.

5:41  "I do not receive glory from men.

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

5:43  I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not receive me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive.

5:44  How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?

5:45  Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; it is Moses who accuses you, on whom you set your hope.

5:46  If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.

5:47  But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?"