The Holy Bible - The New King James Version - John
5
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- After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
- Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in
Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches.
- In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed,
waiting for the moving of the water.
- For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the
water; then whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was
made well of whatever disease he had.
- Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years.
- When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that
condition a long time, He said to him, "Do you want to be made well?"
- The sick man answered Him, "Sir, I have no man 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, "Rise, take up your bed and walk."
- And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked. And
that day was the Sabbath.
- The Jews therefore said to him who was cured, "It is the Sabbath; it is
not lawful for you to carry your bed."
- He answered them, "He who made me well said to me, 'Take up your bed and
walk.'"
- Then they asked him, "Who is the Man who said to you, 'Take up your bed
and walk'?"
- But the one who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had
withdrawn, a multitude being in that place.
- Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "See, you have
been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you."
- The man departed and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him
well.
- For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him, because
He had done these things on the Sabbath.
- But Jesus answered them, "My Father has been working until now, and I have
been working."
- Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only
broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal
with God.
- Then Jesus answered and said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, the
Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He
does, the Son also does in like manner.
- For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself
does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel.
- For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son
gives life to whom He will.
- For the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son,
- That all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does
not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.
- "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him
who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has
passed from death into life.
- Most assuredly, 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 hear will live.
- For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have
life in Himself,
- And has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the
Son of Man.
- Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the
graves will hear His voice
- And come forth--those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and
those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.
- I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is
righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who
sent Me.
- "If I bear witness of Myself, My witness is not true.
- There is another who bears witness of Me, and I know that the witness
which He witnesses of Me is true.
- You have sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth.
- Yet I do not receive testimony from man, but I say these things that you
may be saved.
- He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing for a time to
rejoice in his light.
- But I have a greater witness than John's; for the works which the Father
has given Me to finish--the very works that I do--bear witness of Me, that the
Father has sent Me.
- And the Father Himself, who sent Me, has testified of Me. You have neither
heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form.
- But you do not have His word abiding in you, because whom He sent, Him you
do not believe.
- You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life;
and these are they which testify of Me.
- But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.
- I do not receive honor from men.
- But I know you, that you do not have the love of God in you.
- I have come in My Father's name, and you do not receive Me; if another
comes in his own name, him you will receive.
- How can you believe, who receive honor from one another, and do not seek
the honor that comes from the only God?
- Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; there is one who
accuses you--Moses, in whom you trust.
- For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me.
- But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?"
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