The Healing at the Pool

1. After these things there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2. And in Jerusalem, at the Sheep Gate, there is a pool, called in Hebrew Bethzatha, having five colonnades.
3. In these lay a multitude of those being ill blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
4. For from time to time an angel of the Lord would descend into the pool and stir the water; the first then who entered after the stirring of the water was made well from whatever disease he held.
5. And there was a certain man there who had been in weakness thirty-eight years.
6. Jesus, seeing him lying there and knowing that he already had been a long time in that condition, says to him, “Do you wish to become well.”
7. The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred; but while I am coming, another goes down before me.”
8. Jesus says to him, “Rise, take up your mat, and walk.”
9. And immediately the man became well, and he took up his mat and walked. And it was a Sabbath on that day.
10. So the Jews were saying to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry the mat.”
11. But he answered them, “The one who made me well, that one said to me, ‘Take up your mat and walk.’”
12. They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take it up and walk.’”
13. But the one healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had turned aside, a crowd being in that place.
14. Afterward Jesus finds him in the temple and said to him, “See, you have become well; sin no longer, lest something worse happen to you.”
15. The man departed and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
16. And for this reason the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.
17. But he answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”
18. For this reason therefore the Jews were seeking even 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.

The Son’s Authority from the Father

19. Jesus therefore answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son is not able to do anything from himself, unless something he sees the Father doing; for whatever that one does, these things likewise the Son also does.”
20. “For the Father loves the Son and shows him all things that he himself is doing, and greater works than these he will show him, so that you may marvel.”
21. “For just as the Father raises the dead and gives life, so also the Son gives life to whom he wills.”
22. “For neither does the Father judge anyone, but he has given all judgement to the Son.”
23. “So that all may honour the Son, just as they honour the Father; he who does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent him.”
24. “Truly, truly, I say to you, the one hearing my word and believing the One who sent me has eternal life, and does not come into judgement, but has passed out of death into life.”
25. “Truly, truly, I say to you, that an hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.”
26. “For just as the Father has life in himself, so he also gave to the Son to have life in himself.”
27. “And he gave to him authority to execute judgement, because he is Son of Man.”
28. “Do not marvel at this, for an hour comes in which all in the tombs will hear his voice.”
29. “And they will come out those who did good things to a resurrection of life, but those who did evil to a resurrection of judgement.”

Witnesses to the Son

30. “I am able to do nothing from myself; as I hear, I judge, and my judgement is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the One who sent me.”
31. “If I bear witness about myself, my witness is not true.”
32. “There is another who bears witness about me, and I know that the witness which he bears concerning me is true.”
33. “You have sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth.”
34. “But I do not receive the witness from a man; rather, I say these things so that you may be saved.”
35. “He was the burning and shining lamp, and you wished to rejoice for a time in his light.”
36. “But I have the witness greater than John; for the works which the Father has given me that I should complete, the works themselves which I am doing, bear witness about me, that the Father has sent me.”
37. “And the Father who sent me, he has borne witness about me; neither his voice have you ever heard nor his form have you seen.”
38. “And his word you do not have remaining in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent.”
39. “You search the Scriptures, because you think in them you have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness about me.”
40. “And you are not willing to come to me that you may have life.”
41. “I do not receive glory from men.”
42. “But I know you, that the love of God you do not have in yourselves.”
43. “I have come in the name of my Father, and you do not receive me; if another should come in his own name, him you would receive.”
44. “How are you able to believe, receiving glory from one another, and the glory which is from the only God you do not seek.”
45. “Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; the one accusing you is Moses, in whom you have hoped.”
46. “For if you were believing Moses, you would believe me, for concerning me that one wrote.”
47. “But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words.”