5John 5

Jesus Heals a Sick Man

1Later, Jesus went to Jerusalem for another Jewish festival.Select John 5:1

2In the city near the sheep gate was a pool with five porches, and its name in Hebrew was Bethzatha.Select John 5:2

4Many sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed people were lying close to the pool.Select John 5:4

5Beside the pool was a man who had been sick for 38 years.Select John 5:5

6When Jesus saw the man and realized that he had been crippled for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to be healed?”Select John 5:6

7The man answered, “Sir, I don't have anyone to put me in the pool when the water is stirred up. I try to get in, but someone else always gets there first.”Select John 5:7

8Jesus told him, “Pick up your mat and walk!”Select John 5:8

9Right then the man was healed. He picked up his mat and started walking around. The day on which this happened was a Sabbath.Select John 5:9

10When the Jewish leaders saw the man carrying his mat, they said to him, “This is the Sabbath! No one is allowed to carry a mat on the Sabbath.”Select John 5:10

11But he replied, “The man who healed me told me to pick up my mat and walk.”Select John 5:11

12They asked him, “Who is this man that told you to pick up your mat and walk?”Select John 5:12

13But he did not know who Jesus was, and Jesus had left because of the crowd.Select John 5:13

14Later, Jesus met the man in the temple and told him, “You are now well. But don't sin anymore or something worse might happen to you.”Select John 5:14

15The man left and told the leaders that Jesus was the one who had healed him.Select John 5:15

16They started making a lot of trouble for Jesus because he did things like this on the Sabbath.Select John 5:16

17But Jesus said, “My Father has never stopped working, and this is why I keep on working.”Select John 5:17

18Now the leaders wanted to kill Jesus for two reasons. First, he had broken the law of the Sabbath. But even worse, he had said God was his Father, which made him equal with God.Select John 5:18

The Son's Authority

19Jesus told the people: I tell you for certain the Son cannot do anything on his own. He can do only what he sees the Father doing, and he does exactly what he sees the Father do.Select John 5:19

20The Father loves the Son and has shown him everything he does. The Father will show him even greater things, and you will be amazed.Select John 5:20

21Just as the Father raises the dead and gives life, so the Son gives life to anyone he wants to.Select John 5:21

22The Father doesn't judge anyone, but he has made his Son the judge of everyone.Select John 5:22

23The Father wants all people to honor the Son as much as they honor him. When anyone refuses to honor the Son, this is the same as refusing to honor the Father who sent him.Select John 5:23

24I tell you for certain that everyone who hears my message and has faith in the one who sent me has eternal life and will never be condemned. They have already gone from death to life.Select John 5:24

25I tell you for certain the time will come, and it is already here, when all of the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God. And those who listen to it will live!Select John 5:25

26The Father has the power to give life, and he has given that same power to the Son.Select John 5:26

27And he has given his Son the right to judge everyone, because he is the Son of Man.Select John 5:27

28Don't be surprised! The time will come when all of the dead will hear the voice of the Son of Man,Select John 5:28

29and they will come out of their graves. Everyone who has done good things will rise to life, but everyone who has done evil things will rise and be condemned.Select John 5:29

30I cannot do anything on my own. The Father sent me, and he is the one who told me how to judge. I judge with fairness, because I obey him, and I don't just try to please myself.Select John 5:30

Witnesses to Jesus

31If I speak for myself, there is no way to prove I am telling the truth.Select John 5:31

32But there is someone else who speaks for me, and I know what he says is true.Select John 5:32

33You sent messengers to John, and he told them the truth.Select John 5:33

34I don't depend on what people say about me, but I tell you these things so that you may be saved.Select John 5:34

35John was a lamp that gave a lot of light, and you were glad to enjoy his light for a while.Select John 5:35

36But something more important than John speaks for me. I mean the things that the Father has given me to do! All of these speak for me and prove that the Father sent me.Select John 5:36

37The Father who sent me also speaks for me, but you have never heard his voice or seen him face to face.Select John 5:37

38You have not believed his message, because you refused to have faith in the one he sent.Select John 5:38

39You search the Scriptures, because you think you will find eternal life in them. The Scriptures tell about me,Select John 5:39

40but you refuse to come to me for eternal life.Select John 5:40

41I don't care about human praise,Select John 5:41

42but I do know that none of you love God.Select John 5:42

43I have come with my Father's authority, and you have not welcomed me. But you will welcome people who come on their own.Select John 5:43

44How could you possibly believe? You like to have your friends praise you, and you don't care about praise that the only God can give!Select John 5:44

45Don't think that I will be the one to accuse you to the Father. You have put your hope in Moses, yet he is the very one who will accuse you.Select John 5:45

46Moses wrote about me, and if you had believed Moses, you would have believed me.Select John 5:46

47But if you don't believe what Moses wrote, how can you believe what I say?Select John 5:47