1After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, called in Hebrew Bethesda, which has five porticoes.
3In these lay a multitude of the sick—blind, lame, and paralyzed—⟦waiting for the moving of the water.⟧
4⟦For an angel would go down at a certain time into the pool and stir up the water. So the first one to step in after the stirring of the water would be made well from whatever disease afflicted them.⟧
5Now a certain man was there who had been in his sickness for thirty-eight years.
6When Jesus saw this man lying there and knew that he had already been in that condition for a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be made well?”
7The sick man answered him, “Lord, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; and while I am on my way, another steps down before me.”
8Jesus said to him, “Get up, pick up your mat, and walk.”
9And immediately the man was made well, and he picked up his mat and began to walk. Now it was the Sabbath on that day.
10So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to pick up your mat.”
11But he answered them, “The one who made me well, he told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”
12They asked him, “Who is the man who told you, ‘Pick it up and walk’?”
13But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away, since there was a crowd in that place.
14After these things, Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you.”
15The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
16And for this reason the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.
17But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I also am working.”
18For this reason, therefore, the Jews were 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 with God.
19So Jesus answered and said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing from himself, unless he sees the Father doing it. For whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in the same way.
20For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. And he will show him greater works than these, so that you may marvel.
21For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he wishes.
22For the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,
23so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
24Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes the one who sent me has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.
25Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
26For just as the Father has life in himself, so also he gave to the Son to have life in himself.
27And he gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man.
28Do not marvel at this, because an hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice
29and will come out—those who have done good things to a resurrection of life, and those who have practiced evil things to a resurrection of judgment.
30I can do nothing from myself. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the one who sent me.
31If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.
32There is another who testifies about me, and I know that the testimony he bears about me is true.
33You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.
34But I do not receive testimony from a man, but I say these things so that you may be saved.
35He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
36But I have a testimony greater than John’s. For the works that the Father has given me to complete—the very works that I am doing—testify about me that the Father has sent me.
37And the Father who sent me, he himself has testified about me. You have never heard his voice nor seen his form,
38and you do not have his word remaining in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent.
39You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that testify about me.
40And you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.
41I do not receive glory from men,
42but I know you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves.
43I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
44How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
45Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you: Moses, in whom you have set your hope.
46For if you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.
47But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?
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