John 5

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1 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep [gate] a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches.
3 In these lay a great multitude of sick, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the movement of water,
4 For an angel went down from time to time in the pool and stirred up the water, and who was part of the first [it] on the water perturbation, he recovered, would be by what may have been obsessed with the disease.
5 Here was a man who had an infirmity thirty-eight years.
6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he was lying for a long time, he said to him: Wilt thou be made whole?
7 The sick man answered Him, Yes, Lord; I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is troubled; when I am coming, another steps down before me.
8 Jesus said to him: Arise, take up thy bed, and walk.
9 And immediately he recovered, and took up his bed and walked. Now it was the Sabbath day.
10 Therefore the Jews said cured, today is Saturday; not lawful for you to take the bed.
eleven He answered them: He that made me whole, the same said to me, Take up thy bed, and walk.
12 He was asked: Who is the man who said to thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?
13 Was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a multitude being in that place.
14 Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, you are made whole; Sin no more, lest a worse thing with you.
15 The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus healed.
16 And the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill him for what he had done these [things] on Saturday.

17 Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
18 They sought the more to kill him Judah, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
19 Then Jesus answered and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of Himself, unless seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these things the Son also does.
20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.
21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he will.
22 For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son,
23 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.
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and cometh not into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
25 Verily, verily, I say unto you: the time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and they that hear shall live.
26 For as the Father has life in Himself, and has given to the Son to have life in himself.
27 And he gave him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of man.
28 Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves shall hear his voice;
29 and shall come forth that have done good to the resurrection of life, and have done evil - the resurrection of damnation.
thirty I can do nothing of himself. As I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of him who sent me.

31 If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.
32 There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that is true the testimony which he testifies about me.
33 You sent to John, and he testified to the truth.
34 But I do not accept testimony from man, but I say this so that you may be saved.
35 He was a burning and a shining light; and you were willing to rejoice in his light.
36 I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.
37 And the Father who sent me has testified about me himself. And you go to his voice never heard nor seen his form;
38 and ye have not his word abiding in you, because you do not believe him whom he has sent.
39 Search the scriptures, for ye think ye have eternal life; and they which testify of me.
40 But you do not want to come to me to have life.
41 I do not accept glory from men,
42 but I know you, you do not have the love of God.
43 I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not; if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
44 How can you believe, when apart receive honor and glory that comes from the only God ye seek not?
45 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there accuses you, Moses, in whom you trust.
46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote of me.
47 If you believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?

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