John 5:1-46 NIV
1 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem
for a feast of the Jews. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the
Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is
called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered
colonnades. 3 Here a great number of disabled people used to
lie--the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. 5 One
who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 When
Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a
long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?" 7 "Sir,"
the invalid replied, "I have no one to help me into the pool when the
water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of
me." 8 Then Jesus said to him,"Get up! Pick up your
mat and walk." 9 At once the man was cured;
he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a
Sabbath, 10 and so the Jews said
to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to
carry your mat." 11 But he replied,
"The man who made me well said to me, 'Pick up your mat and
walk.' " 12 So they asked him, "Who is this
fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?" 13 The man
who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the
crowd that was there. 14 Later Jesus found him at the temple
and said to him, "See, you are well again. Stop sinning or
something worse may happen to you." 15 The man went away
and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
16 So, because Jesus was doing these things on
the Sabbath, the Jews persecuted him. 17 Jesus said to
them, "My Father is always at his work to
this very day, and I, too, am working." 18 For this
reason the Jews tried all the harder to kill him; not only
was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making
himself equal with God. 19 Jesus gave them this
answer: "I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because
whatever the Father does the Son also does. 20 For the Father
loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, to your
amazement he will show him even greater things than these. 21 For
just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even
so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give
it. 22 Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted
all judgment to the Son,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. 24 "I tell you
the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has
eternal life and will not be condemned; he
has crossed over from death to life. 25 I tell
you the truth, a time is coming and has now come when the
dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who
hear will live. 26 For as the Father has life in himself, so
he has granted the Son to have life in himself. 27 And
he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son
of Man. 28"Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice 29and
come out--those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done
evil will rise to be condemned. 30 By myself I
can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is
just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.
31 "If I testify about myself, my testimony
is not valid. 32 There is another who testifies
in my favor,and I know that his testimony about me is
valid. 33 "You have sent to John and he has testified to the truth. 34 Not that I accept human
testimony; but I mention it that you may be saved. 35 John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you chose for a time to enjoy his light. 36 "I
have testimony weightier than that of John. For the very
work that the Father has given me to finish, and which I am doing, testifies
that the Father has sent me. 37 And the Father
who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You have
never heard his voice nor seen his form, 38 nor
does his word dwell in you, for you do not believe the one he sent. 39 You
diligently study the Scriptures because
you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are
the Scriptures that testify about me, 40 yet
you refuse to come to me to have life. 41 "I
do not accept praise from men, 42 but I know
you. I know that you do not have the love of God in your hearts. 43 I
have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else
comes in his own name, you will accept him. 44 How can you
believe if you accept praise from one another, yet make no effort to obtain the
praise that comes from the only God ? 45 "But
do not think I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom your hopes are set. 46 If
you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.47 But
since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I
say?"
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