Outline
Prologue: The Word Became Flesh (1:1-18)The Beginning of Jesus' Ministry (1:19-51)Jesus' Public Ministry: Signs and Discourses (chs. 2-11)Changing Water into Wine (2:1-11)Cleansing the Temple (2:12-25)Jesus Teaches Nicodemus (3:1-21)John the Baptist's Final Testimony about Jesus (3:22-36)Jesus and the Samaritans (4:1-42)Healing of the Official's Son (4:43-54)- Jesus' Visit to Jerusalem at an Annual Feast (ch. 5)
Feeding the 5,000 and Jesus' Claim to Be the Bread of Life (ch. 6)Jesus at the Feast of Tabernacles and Disputes over Who He Is (chs. 7-8)Healing of the Man Born Blind (ch. 9)Jesus is the Good Shepherd (10:1-21)Conflict at the Feast of Dedication over Jesus' Identity (10:22-42)The Raising of Lazarus (ch. 11)
The Passion Week (chs. 12-19)The Anointing of Jesus' Feet (12:1-11)Jesus' Entry into Jerusalem as King (12:12-19)Jesus Predicts His Death (12:20-36)Belief and Unbelief among the Jews (12:37-50)Jesus' Farewell Discourses and Prayer (chs. 13-17)Jesus' Betrayal and Arrest (18:1-11)Jesus' Trials before Jewish and Roman Officials (18:12-40)Jesus' Crucifixion (19:1-27)Jesus' Death and Burial (19:28-42)
Jesus' Resurrection (20:1-29)Statement of the Gospel's Purpose (20:30-31)Epilogue: Jesus' Recommissioning of the Disciples (ch. 21)
John 5 NLT
1 Afterward Jesus returned to Jerusalem
for one of the Jewish holy days.
2Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate, was the
pool of Bethesda, with five covered porches.
3 Crowds of sick people—blind, lame, or
paralyzed—lay on the porches.
4
5 One of the men lying there had been sick
for thirty-eight years.
6 When Jesus saw him and knew he had been
ill for a long time, he asked him, “Would you like to get well?”
7 “I can’t, sir,” the sick man said, “for
I have no one to put me into the pool when the water bubbles up. Someone else
always gets there ahead of me.”
8 Jesus told him, “Stand up, pick up your
mat, and walk!”
9 Instantly, the man was healed! He rolled
up his sleeping mat and began walking! But this miracle happened on the
Sabbath,
10 so the Jewish leaders objected. They
said to the man who was cured, “You can’t work on the Sabbath! The law doesn’t
allow you to carry that sleeping mat!”
11 But he replied, “The man who healed me
told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”
12 “Who said such a thing as that?” they
demanded.
13 The man didn’t know, for Jesus had
disappeared into the crowd.
14 But afterward Jesus found him in the
Temple and told him, “Now you are well; so stop sinning, or something even
worse may happen to you.”
15 Then the man went and told the Jewish
leaders that it was Jesus who had healed him.
16 So the Jewish leaders began harassing
Jesus for breaking the Sabbath rules.
17 But Jesus replied, “My Father is always
working, and so am I.”
18So the Jewish leaders tried all the harder to
find a way to kill him. For he not only broke the Sabbath, he called God his
Father, thereby making himself equal with God.
19 So Jesus explained, “I tell you the
truth, the Son can do nothing by himself. He does only what he sees the Father
doing. Whatever the Father does, the Son also does.
20 For the Father loves the Son and shows
him everything he is doing. In fact, the Father will show him how to do even
greater works than healing this man. Then you will truly be astonished.
21 For just as the Father gives life to
those he raises from the dead, so the Son gives life to anyone he wants.
22 In addition, the Father judges no one.
Instead, he has given the Son absolute authority to judge,
23 so that everyone will honor the Son,
just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son is certainly
not honoring the Father who sent him.
24 “I tell you the truth, those who listen
to my message and believe in God who sent me have eternal life. They will never
be condemned for their sins, but they have already passed from death into
life.
25 “And I assure you that the time is
coming, indeed it’s here now, when the dead will hear my voice—the voice of the
Son of God. And those who listen will live.
26 The Father has life in himself, and he
has granted that same life-giving power to his Son.
27 And he has given him authority to judge
everyone because he is the Son of Man.
28 Don’t be so surprised! Indeed, the time
is coming when all the dead in their graves will hear the voice of God’s
Son,
29 and they will rise again. Those who have
done good will rise to experience eternal life, and those who have continued in
evil will rise to experience judgment.
30 I can do nothing on my own. I judge as
God tells me. Therefore, my judgment is just, because I carry out the will of
the one who sent me, not my own will.
31 “If I were to testify on my own behalf,
my testimony would not be valid.
32 But someone else is also testifying
about me, and I assure you that everything he says about me is true.
33 In fact, you sent investigators to
listen to John the Baptist, and his testimony about me was true.
34 Of course, I have no need of human
witnesses, but I say these things so you might be saved.
35 John was like a burning and shining
lamp, and you were excited for a while about his message.
36 But I have a greater witness than
John—my teachings and my miracles. The Father gave me these works to
accomplish, and they prove that he sent me.
37 And the Father who sent me has testified
about me himself. You have never heard his voice or seen him face to
face,
38 and you do not have his message in your
hearts, because you do not believe me—the one he sent to you.
39 “You search the Scriptures because you
think they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to me!
40 Yet you refuse to come to me to receive
this life.
41 “Your approval means nothing to
me,
42because I know you don’t have God’s love
within you.
43 For I have come to you in my Father’s
name, and you have rejected me. Yet if others come in their own name, you
gladly welcome them.
44 No wonder you can’t believe! For you
gladly honor each other, but you don’t care about the honor that comes from the
one who alone is God.
45 “Yet it isn’t I who will accuse you
before the Father. Moses will accuse you! Yes, Moses, in whom you put your
hopes.
46 If you really believed Moses, you would
believe me, because he wrote about me.
47 But since you don’t believe what he
wrote, how will you believe what I say?”
