John 5

After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate there is a pool that in Hebrew is called “Bethesda,” and it has five roofed colonnades.

In these lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, and withered.[[waiting for the moving of the water.

For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.]]

And a certain man was there who had been in his infirmity for 38 years.

When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had already been a long time in that condition, he said to him, “Do you want to get well?”

The sick man answered him, “Lord, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I am coming, another steps down before me.”

Jesus said to him, “Get up, pick up your pallet, and walk.”

And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his pallet and was walking around. Now it was the Sabbath on that day,

so the Jews said to the man who was cured, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your pallet.”

But he answered them, “The one who made me whole, that man said to me, ‘Take up your pallet and walk.’”

They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your pallet and walk?’”

But he who was healed did not know who it was because Jesus had slipped away—there was a multitude of people in that place.

Afterward, Jesus found him in the Temple and said to him, “Look, you have become whole. Do not sin anymore, lest something worse happen to you!”

The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him whole.

And for this reason the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

But Jesus answered them, “My Father is always working, and I am always working.”

For this reason, the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because he not only was “breaking the Sabbath,” but also was calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

So Jesus answered and said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son is not able to do anything on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing, for whatever he does, the Son also does in the same way.

For the Father is a friend to the Son, and shows him all the things that he is doing. And he will show him greater works than these, so that you will be amazed.

For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he wants.

For the Father does not judge anyone, but he has given all judgment to the Son

so that all will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever is hearing my word and is believing him who sent me has life in the age to come, and does not come into condemnation, but has crossed over from death into life.

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 heard will live.

For as the Father has life in himself, so He has also given to the Son to have life in himself.

And he gave him authority to execute judgment because he is the Son of Man.

Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice

and will come out; those who have done good things, to the resurrection of life, and those who have practiced evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.

I am not able to do anything on my own. As I hear, I judge. And my judgment is righteous because I do not seek to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

“If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.

It is another who testifies on my behalf, and I know that the testimony that he testifies about me is true.

You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.

Now I do not accept the testimony that comes from people, but I say these things in order that you may be saved.

He was the lamp that burns and shines, and you were willing to rejoice for a season in his light.

But the testimony that I have is greater than that of John, for the works that the Father has given me to accomplish—the very works that I do—testify about me, that the Father has sent me.

And the Father that sent me, he has testified about me. You have never heard his voice at any time nor seen his form.

And you do not have his word residing in you because you do not believe him whom he sent.

You search the scriptures because you think that in them you have life in the age to come, and yet those are the ones that testify about me.

But you do not want to come to me so that you can have life.

“I do not accept glory from people,

but I know you, that you do not have the love of God inside yourselves.

I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me, but if another comes in his own name, you will accept him.

How are you able to believe, you who are always accepting glory from one another and are not seeking the glory that comes from the only God?

Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; there is one who accuses you: Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

For if you were believing Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.

But since you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”