John 5 KJV Easy Read Bible

KJV Easy Read Bible

A Man Healed at the Pool of Bethesda

1After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

2Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.

3In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. invalid; lame; paralyzed

4For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. stirred; well

5And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. sickness

6When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, He said to him, Will you be made whole?

7The impotent man answered Him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steps down before me.

8Jesus said to him, Rise, take up your bed, and walk. pallet, cot

9And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.

10The Jews therefore said to him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for you to carry your bed. JER 17:21 | permissible, proper according to Jewish law

11He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said to me, Take up your bed, and walk.

12Then asked they him, What man is that which said to you, Take up your bed, and walk?

13And he that was healed knew not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed Himself away, a multitude being in that place.

14Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, Behold, you are made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come to you.

15The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole.

Honor the Father and the Son

16And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay Him, because He had done these things on the sabbath day.

17But Jesus answered them, My Father works until now, and I work. GEN 22

18Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill Him, because He not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God.

19Then answered Jesus and said to them, Verily, verily, I say to you^p, The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do: for what things soever He does, these also does the Son likewise. truly

20For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that Himself does: and He will show Him greater works than these, that you^p may marvel. be amazed

21For as the Father raises up the dead, and makes them alive; even so the Son makes alive whom He wills.

22For the Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment to the Son:

23That all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son honors not the Father which has sent Him.

Life and Judgment Are Through the Son

24Verily, verily, I say to you^p, He that hears My word, and believes on Him that sent Me, has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death to life.

25Verily, verily, I say to you^p, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.

26For as the Father has life in Himself; so has He given to the Son to have life in Himself; the source of life

27And has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man. make

28Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice,

29And shall come forth; they that have done good, to the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, to the resurrection of damnation. DAN 12:2 | judgment

30I can of My own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and My judgment is just; because I seek not My own will, but the will of the Father which has sent Me. NUM 16:28

The Fourfold Witness

31If I bear witness of Myself, My witness is not true.

32There is another that bears witness of Me; and I know that the witness which he witnesses of Me is true.

33You^p sent to John, and he bore witness to the truth.

34But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that you^p might be saved. witness

35He was a burning and a shining light: and you^p were willing for a season to rejoice in his light. while

36But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father has given Me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of Me, that the Father has sent Me.

37And the Father Himself, which has sent Me, has borne witness of Me. You^p have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His shape.

38And you^p have not His word abiding in you^p: for whom He has sent, Him you^p believe not.

39Search the scriptures; for in them you^p think you^p have eternal life: and they are they which testify of Me. you search; because

40And you^p will not come to Me, that you^p might have life.

41I receive not honor from men. praise

42But I know you^p, that you^p have not the love of God in you^p.

43I am come in My Father’s name, and you^p receive Me not: if another shall come in his own name, him you^p will receive.

44How can you^p believe, which receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that comes from God only?

45Do not think that I will accuse you^p to the Father: there is one that accuses you^p, even Moses, in whom you^p trust.

46For had you^p believed Moses, you^p would have believed Me: for he wrote of Me.

47But if you^p believe not his writings, how shall you^p believe My words?

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