LO - John - 5

5:1  Afterward there was a Jewish festival, and Jesus went to Jerusalem.

5:2  Now there is at Jerusalem, nigh the sheep gate, a bath, called, in Hebrew, Bethesda, which has five covered walks.

5:3  In these lay a great number of sick, blind, lame, and palsied people, waiting for the moving of the water,

5:4  (for a messenger at times descended into the bath, and agitated the water; and the first that stepped in, after the agitation of the water, was cured of whatever disease he had.)

5:5  Now, there was one there, who had been diseased thirty-eight years.

5:6  Jesus, who saw him lying, and knew that he had been long ill, said to him, Do you desire to be healed?

5:7  The diseased man answered, Sir, I have no person to put me into the bath, when the water is agitated; but while I am going, another gets down before me.

5:8  Jesus said to him, Arise, take up your couch and walk.

5:9  Instantly the man was healed, and took up his couch and walked.

5:10  Now, that day was the Sabbath. The Jews, therefore, said to him that was cured, This is the Sabbath. It is now lawful for you to carry the couch.

5:11  He answered, He who healed me, said to me, Take up your couch and walk.

5:12  They asked him then, Who is the man that said to you, Take up your couch and walk?

5:13  But he that had been healed, knew who it was; for Jesus had slipped away, there being a crowd in the place.

5:14  Jesus, afterward, finding him in the temple, said to him, Behold, you are cured; sin no more, lest something worse befall you.

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

5:16  Therefore, the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he had done this on the Sabbath.

5:17  But Jesus answered them, My Father works until now; I also work.

5:18  For this reason the Jews were the more intent to kill him; because he had not only broken the Sabbath, but, by calling God his real Father, had equaled himself to God.

5:19  Then Jesus addressed them, saying, Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but as he sees the Father do: for what things soever he does, such does the Son, likewise.

5:20  For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all that he himself does: nay, and will show him greater works than these, which will astonish you.

5:21  For as the Father raises and quickens the dead, the Son also quickens whom he will:

5:22  for the Father judges no person, having committed the power of judging entirely to the Son,

5:23  that all might honor the Son; as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son, honors not the Father, who sent him.

5:24  Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears my doctrine, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life; and shall not suffer condemnation, having passed from death to life.

5:25  Most assuredly, I say to you, the time comes; or, rather, is come, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and hearing, they shall live.

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

5:27  and has given him even the judicial authority, because he is a Son of Man.

5:28  Wonder not at this: for the time comes when all that are in their graves shall hear his voice,

5:29  and shall come forth. They who have done good, shall arise to enjoy life; they who have done evil, shall arise to suffer punishment.

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

5:31  If I alone testify concerning myself, my testimony is not to be regarded:

5:32  there is another who testifies concerning me; and I know that his testimony of me ought to be regarded.

5:33  You, yourselves, sent to John, and he bore testimony of the truth.

5:34  As for me, I need no human testimony; I can only urge this for your salvation.

5:35  He was the blazing and shining lamp; and for awhile, you were glad to enjoy his light.

5:36  But I have greater testimony than John's: for the works which the Father has empowered me to perform, the works themselves, which I do, testify for me, that the Father has sent me.

5:37  Nay, the Father, who sent me, has himself attested me. Did you never hear his voice, or see his form?

5:38  Or, have you forgotten his declaration, that you believe not him whom he has sent forth?

5:39  You search the scriptures because you think to obtain by them eternal life. Now these, also, are witnesses for me;

5:40  yet you will not come to me, that you may obtain life.

5:41  I desire not honor from men;

5:42  but I know you, that you are strangers to the love of God.

5:43  I am come in my Father's name, and you did not receive me; if another come, in his own name, you will receive him.

5:44  How can you believe, while you court honor one from another, regardless of the honor which comes from God alone?

5:45  Do not think that I am he who will accuse you to the Father. Your accuser is Moses, in whom you confide.

5:46  For if you believed Moses, you would believe me: for he wrote concerning me.

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