John 5:1–47

¹After these things there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.²Now in Jerusalem at the sheepgate there is a pool designated in Hebrew Beth‧za′tha, with five colonnades.³In these a multitude of the sick, blind, lame and those with withered members, was lying down.⁴——⁵But a certain man was there who had been in his sickness for thirty‐eight years.⁶Seeing this man lying down, and being aware that he had already been [sick] a long time, Jesus said to him: “Do you want to become sound in health?”⁷The sick man answered him: “Sir, I do not have a man to put me into the pool when the water is disturbed; but while I am coming another steps down ahead of me.”⁸Jesus said to him: “Get up, pick up your cot and walk.”⁹With that the man immediately became sound in health, and he picked up his cot and began to walk.

Now on that day it was a sabbath.¹⁰Therefore the Jews began to say to the cured man: “It is Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry the cot.”¹¹But he answered them: “The very one that made me sound in health said to me, ‘Pick up your cot and walk.’”¹²They asked him: “Who is the man that told you, ‘Pick it up and walk’?”¹³But the healed man did not know who he was, for Jesus had turned aside, there being a crowd in the place.

¹⁴After these things Jesus found him in the temple and said to him: “See, you have become sound in health. Do not sin anymore, in order that something worse does not happen to you.”¹⁵The man went away and told the Jews it was Jesus that made him sound in health.¹⁶So on this account the Jews went persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things during Sabbath.¹⁷But he answered them: “My Father has kept working until now, and I keep working.”¹⁸On this account, indeed, the Jews began seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath but he was also calling God his own Father, making himself equal to God.

¹⁹Therefore, in answer, Jesus went on to say to them: “Most truly I say to ​YOU, The Son cannot do a single thing of his own initiative, but only what he beholds the Father doing. For whatever things that One does, these things the Son also does in like manner.²⁰For the Father has affection for the Son and shows him all the things he himself does, and he will show him works greater than these, in order that ​YOU​ may marvel.²¹For just as the Father raises the dead up and makes them alive, so the Son also makes those alive whom he wants to.²²For the Father judges no one at all, but he has committed all the judging to the Son,²³in order that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He that does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.²⁴Most truly I say to ​YOU, He that hears my word and believes him that sent me has everlasting life, and he does not come into judgment but has passed over from death to life.

²⁵“Most truly I say to ​YOU, The hour is coming, and it is now, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who have given heed will live.²⁶For just as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted also to the Son to have life in himself.²⁷And he has given him authority to do judging, because Son of man he is.²⁸Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice²⁹and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life, those who practiced vile things to a resurrection of judgment.³⁰I cannot do a single thing of my own initiative; just as I hear, I judge; and the judgment that I render is righteous, because I seek, not my own will, but the will of him that sent me.

³¹“If I alone bear witness about myself, my witness is not true.³²There is another that bears witness about me, and I know that the witness which he bears about me is true.³³YOU​ have dispatched men to John, and he has borne witness to the truth.³⁴However, I do not accept the witness from man, but I say these things that ​YOU​ may be saved.³⁵That man was a burning and shining lamp, and ​YOU​ for a short time were willing to rejoice greatly in his light.³⁶But I have the witness greater than that of John, for the very works that my Father assigned me to accomplish, the works themselves that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father dispatched me.³⁷Also, the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. YOU​ have neither heard his voice at any time nor seen his figure;³⁸and ​YOU​ do not have his word remaining in ​YOU, because the very one whom he dispatched ​YOU​ do not believe.

³⁹“YOU​ are searching the Scriptures, because ​YOU​ think that by means of them ​YOU​ will have everlasting life; and these are the very ones that bear witness about me.⁴⁰And yet ​YOU​ do not want to come to me that ​YOU​ may have life.⁴¹I do not accept glory from men,⁴²but I well know that ​YOU​ do not have the love of God in ​YOU.⁴³I have come in the name of my Father, but ​YOU​ do not receive me; if someone else arrived in his own name, ​YOU​ would receive that one.⁴⁴How can ​YOU​ believe, when ​YOU​ are accepting glory from one another and ​YOU​ are not seeking the glory that is from the only God?⁴⁵Do not think that I will accuse ​YOU​ to the Father; there is one that accuses ​YOU, Moses, in whom ​YOU​ have put ​YOUR​ hope.⁴⁶In fact, if ​YOU​ believed Moses ​YOU​ would believe me, for that one wrote about me.⁴⁷But if ​YOU​ do not believe the writings of that one, how will ​YOU​ believe my sayings?”