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1 After this there was a Jewish festival, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which in Hebrew is called Bethesda, and it has five roofed porches.
3 A large number of people who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed were lying there.
4 [ For an angel of the Lord went down and stirred up the water at certain times and whoever stepped in while the water was stirring was healed from whatever disease he suffered from.]
5 Now a certain man was there who had been in his illness for thirty- eight years.
6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and after he realized that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healthy?”
7 The sick man replied to him, “Sir, I do not have anyone, that when the water is stirred up, he might put me into the pool. But as I am going into it, another steps down before me.”
8 Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.”
9 Immediately the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was a Sabbath.
10 So the Jews said to him who was healed, “It is the Sabbath and you are not permitted to carry your mat.”
11 But he replied to them, “The one who made me healthy, he said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”
12 They asked him, “Who is the man that said to you, ‘Pick it up and walk’?”
13 However, the one who was healed did not know who it was because Jesus had gone away secretly, for there was a crowd in the place.
14 Afterward, Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you have become healthy! Do not sin anymore, so that something worse will not happen to you.”
15 The man went away and reported to the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him healthy.
16 Now because of these things the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did these things on the Sabbath.
17 But Jesus replied to them, “My Father is working even now, and I, too, am working.”
18 Because of this, therefore, the Jews sought even more to kill him because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal to God.
19 So Jesus answered and said to them, “Truly, truly I say to you, the Son can do nothing of himself, except only what he sees the Father doing, for whatever the Father does, these things also the Son does as well.
20 For the Father loves the Son and he shows him everything that he himself does, and he will show him greater things than these so that you will be amazed.
21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes.
22 For not even the Father judges anyone, but he has given all judgment to the Son
23 so that everyone will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
24 Truly, truly I say to you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not come into judgment, but he has passed from death to life.
25 Truly, truly, I say to you, the time is coming, and is now, 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 also he gave to the Son to have life in himself,
27 and he has given the Son authority to carry out judgment because he is the Son of Man.
28 Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming in which everyone who is in the tombs will hear his voice
29 and will come out. Those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
30 I can do nothing from myself. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous because I am not seeking my own will but the will of him who sent me.
31 If I should testify about myself, my testimony would not be true.
32 There is another who testifies about me, and I know that the testimony that he gives about me is true.
33 You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.
34 Now the testimony that I receive is not from man. But I say these things that you might be saved.
35 John was a lamp that was burning and shining, and you were willing to rejoice in his light for a while.
36 Yet the testimony that I have is greater than that of John, for the works that the Father has given me that I should accomplish them, the very works that I do, testify about me that the Father has sent me.
37 The Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You have neither heard his voice nor seen his form at any time.
38 You do not have his word remaining in you, for the one whom he has sent, him you do not believe.
39 You search the scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life, and these same scriptures testify about me,
40 and you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.
41 I do not receive praise from men,
42 but I know you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves.
43 I have come in my Father’ s name, and you do not receive me. If another should come in his own name, you would receive him.
44 How can you believe, you who accept praise from one another but are not seeking the praise that comes from the only God?
45 Do not think that I myself will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have put your hope.
46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me.
47 But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”
The Gospel of John