| 1 After this there was a feast of the Jews and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. | |
| 2 Now, by the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem, there is a pool (called Bethzatha in Hebrew) surrounded by five galleries. | |
| 3 In these galleries lay a multitude of sick people – blind, lame and paralyzed. | |
| 4 (All were waiting for the water to move, for at times an angel of the Lord would descend into the pool and stir up the water; and the first person to enter after this movement of the water would be healed of whatever disease that person had.) | |
| 5 There was a man who had been sick for thirty-eight years. | |
| 6 Jesus saw him, and since he knew how long this man had been lying there, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” | |
| 7 And the sick man answered, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is disturbed; so while I am still on my way, another steps down before me.” | |
| 8 Jesus then said to him, “Stand up, take your mat and walk.” | |
| 9 And at once the man was healed, and he took up his mat and walked. Now that day happened to be the Sabbath. | |
| 10 So the Jews said to the man who had just been healed, “It is the Sabbath and the Law doesn’t allow you to carry your mat.” | |
| 11 He answered them, “The one who healed me said to me: Take up your mat and walk.” | |
| 12 They asked him, “Who is the one who said to you: Take up your mat and walk?” | |
| 13 But the sick man had no idea who it was who had cured him, for Jesus had slipped away among the crowd that filled the place. | |
| 14 Afterwards Jesus met him in the Temple court and told him, ”Now you are well; don’t sin again, lest something worse happen to you.” | |
| 15 And the man went back and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him. | |
| 16 So the Jews persecuted Jesus because he performed healings like that on the Sabbath. | |
| 17 Jesus replied, “My Father goes on working and so do I.” | |
| 18 And the Jews tried all the harder to kill him, for Jesus not only broke the Sabbath observance, but also made himself equal with God, calling him his own Father. | |
| 19 Jesus said to them, “Truly, I assure you, the Son cannot do anything by himself, but only what he sees the Father do. And whatever he does, the Son also does. | |
| 20 The Father loves the Son and shows him everything he does; and he will show him even greater things than these, so that you will be amazed. | |
| 21 As the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so the Son gives life to whom he wills. | |
| 22 In the same way the Father judges no one, for he has entrusted all judgment to the Son, | |
| 23 and he wants all to honor the Son as they honor the Father. Whoever ignores the Son, ignores as well the Father who sent him. | |
| 24 Truly, I say to you, anyone who hears my word and believes him who sent me, has eternal life; and there is no judgment for him because he has passed from death to life. | |
| 25 Truly, the hour is coming and has indeed come, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and, on hearing it, will live. | |
| 26 For the Father has life in himself and he has given to the Son also to have life in himself. | |
| 27 And he has empowered him as well to carry out Judgment, for he is a son of man. | |
| 28 Do not be surprised at this: the hour is coming when all those lying in tombs will hear my voice | |
| 29 and come out; those who have done good shall rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned. | |
| 30 I can do nothing of myself, and I need to hear Another One to judge; and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will, but the will of him who sent me. | |
| 31 If I bore witness to myself, my testimony would be worthless. | |
| 32 But Another One is bearing witness to me and I know that his testimony is true when he bears witness to me. | |
| 33 John also bore witness to the truth when you sent messengers to him, | |
| 34 but I do not seek such human testimony; I recall this for you, so that you may be saved. | |
| 35 John was a burning and shining lamp, and for a while you were willing to enjoy his light. | |
| 36 But I have greater evidence than that of John – the works which the Father entrusted to me to carry out. The very works I do bear witness: the Father has sent me. | |
| 37 Thus he who bears witness to me is the Father who sent me. You have never heard his voice and have never seen his likeness; | |
| 38 then, as long as you do not believe his messenger, his word is not in you. | |
| 39 You search in the Scriptures thinking that in them you will find life; yet Scripture bears witness to me. | |
| 40 But you refuse to come to me, that you may live. | |
| 41 I am not seeking human praise; | |
| 42 but I have known that love of God is not within you, | |
| 43 for I have come in my Father’s name and you do not accept me. If another comes in his own name, you will accept him. | |
| 44 As long as you seek praise from one another instead of seeking the glory coming from the only God, how can you believe? | |
| 45 Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father. Moses himself in whom you placed your hope, accuses you. | |
| 46 If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote of me. | |
| 47 But if you do not believe what he wrote, how will you believe what I say? | |
