After
this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus
went up to Jerusalem.
02 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market
a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue
Bethesda, having five porches.
03 In these lay a great multitude of impotent
folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the
moving of the water.
04 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.
05 And a certain man was there, which had an
infirmity thirty and eight years.
06 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had
been now a long time in that case, he saith unto
him,Wilt thou be made whole?
07 The impotent man answered him,
Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled,
to put me into the pool: but while I am coming,
another steppeth down before me.
08 Jesus saith unto him, Rise,
take up thy bed, and walk.
09 And immediately the man was
made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and
on the same day was the sabbath.
10 The Jews therefore said unto him that was
cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful
for thee to carry thy bed.
11 He answered them, He that made me whole, the
same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.
12 Then asked they him, What man is that which
said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?
13 And he that was healed wist not who it was:
for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude
being in that place.
14 Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and
said unto him,Behold, thou art made
whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto
thee.
15 The man departed, and told the
Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole.
16 And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus,
and sought to slay him, because he had done these
things on the sabbath day.
17 But Jesus answered them, My
Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
18 Therefore the Jews sought the
more to kill him, because he not only had broken
the sabbath, but said also that God was his
Father, making himself equal with God.
19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily,
verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of
himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for
what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the
Son likewise.
20 For the Father loveth
the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself
doeth: and he will shew him greater works than
these, that ye may marvel.
21 For as the Father
raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so
the Son quickeneth whom he will.
22 For the Father judgeth
no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the
Son:
23 That all men should
honour the Son, even as they honour the Father.
He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the
Father which hath sent him.
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24 Verily, verily, I say
unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth
on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and
shall not come into condemnation; but is passed
from death unto life.
25 Verily, verily, I say
unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when
the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God:
and they that hear shall live.
26 For as the Father hath
life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to
have life in himself;
27 And hath given him
authority to execute judgment also, because he is
the Son of man.
28 Marvel not at this: for
the hour is coming, in the which all that are in
the graves shall hear his voice,
29 And shall come forth;
they that have done good, unto the resurrection
of life; and they that have done evil, unto the
resurrection of damnation.
30 I can of mine own self
do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment
is just; because I seek not mine own will, but
the will of the Father which hath 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 the
witness which he witnesseth of me is true.
33 Ye sent unto John, and
he bare witness unto the truth.
34 But I receive not
testimony from man: but these things I say, that
ye might be saved.
35 He was a burning and a
shining light: and ye were willing for a season
to rejoice in his light.
36 But 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, bear witness of me, that the
Father hath sent me.
37 And the Father himself,
which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye
have neither heard his voice at any time, nor
seen his shape.
38 And ye have not his word
abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye
believe not.
39 Search the scriptures;
for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and
they are they which testify of me.
40 And ye will not come to
me, that ye might have life.
41 I receive not honour
from men.
42 But I know you, that ye
have not the love of God in you.
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 ye believe,
which receive honour one of another, and seek not
the honour that cometh from God only?
45 Do not think that I will
accuse you to the Father: there is one that
accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.
46 For had ye believed
Moses, ye would have believed me; for he wrote of
me.
47 But if ye believe not
his writings, how shall ye believe my words?
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