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

1Afterward Jesus returned to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish holy days.

2Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades.

2Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate, was the pool of Bethesda, with five covered porches.

3In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed.

3Crowds of sick people—blind, lame, or paralyzed—lay on the porches.

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5One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

5One of the men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years.

6When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?”

6When Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill for a long time, he asked him, “Would you like to get well?”

7The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.”

7“I can’t, sir,” the sick man said, “for I have no one to put me into the pool when the water bubbles up. Someone else always gets there ahead of me.”

8Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.”

8Jesus told him, “Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk!”

9And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath.

9Instantly, the man was healed! He rolled up his sleeping mat and began walking! But this miracle happened on the Sabbath,

10So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed.”

10so the Jewish leaders objected. They said to the man who was cured, “You can’t work on the Sabbath! The law doesn’t allow you to carry that sleeping mat!”

11But he answered them, “The man who healed me, that man said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and walk.’”

11But he replied, “The man who healed me told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”

12They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?”

12“Who said such a thing as that?” they demanded.

13Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place.

13The man didn’t know, for Jesus had disappeared into the crowd.

14Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you.”

14But afterward Jesus found him in the Temple and told him, “Now you are well; so stop sinning, or something even worse may happen to you.”

15The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him.

15Then the man went and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had healed him. Jesus Claims to Be the Son of God

16And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

16So the Jewish leaders began harassing Jesus for breaking the Sabbath rules.

17But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”

17But Jesus replied, “My Father is always working, and so am I.”

18This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

18So the Jewish leaders tried all the harder to find a way to kill him. For he not only broke the Sabbath, he called God his Father, thereby making himself equal with God.

19So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.

19So Jesus explained, “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself. He does only what he sees the Father doing. Whatever the Father does, the Son also does.

20For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. And greater works than these will he show him, so that you may marvel.

20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he is doing. In fact, the Father will show him how to do even greater works than healing this man. Then you will truly be astonished.

21For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.

21 For just as the Father gives life to those he raises from the dead, so the Son gives life to anyone he wants.

22For the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,

22 In addition, the Father judges no one. Instead, he has given the Son absolute authority to judge,

23that all may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

23 so that everyone will honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son is certainly not honoring the Father who sent him.

24Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

24 “I tell you the truth, those who listen to my message and believe in God who sent me have eternal life. They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have already passed from death into life.

25“Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

25 “And I assure you that the time is coming, indeed it’s here now, when the dead will hear my voice—the voice of the Son of God. And those who listen will live.

26For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself.

26 The Father has life in himself, and he has granted that same life-giving power to his Son.

27And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man.

27 And he has given him authority to judge everyone because he is the Son of Man.

28Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice

28 Don’t be so surprised! Indeed, the time is coming when all the dead in their graves will hear the voice of God’s Son,

29and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

29 and they will rise again. Those who have done good will rise to experience eternal life, and those who have continued in evil will rise to experience judgment.

30“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

30 I can do nothing on my own. I judge as God tells me. Therefore, my judgment is just, because I carry out the will of the one who sent me, not my own will. Witnesses to Jesus

31If I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not true.

31 “If I were to testify on my own behalf, my testimony would not be valid.

32There is another who bears witness about me, and I know that the testimony that he bears about me is true.

32 But someone else is also testifying about me, and I assure you that everything he says about me is true.

33You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth.

33 In fact, you sent investigators to listen to John the Baptist, and his testimony about me was true.

34Not that the testimony that I receive is from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved.

34 Of course, I have no need of human witnesses, but I say these things so you might be saved.

35He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

35 John was like a burning and shining lamp, and you were excited for a while about his message.

36But the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father has sent me.

36 But I have a greater witness than John—my teachings and my miracles. The Father gave me these works to accomplish, and they prove that he sent me.

37And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen,

37 And the Father who sent me has testified about me himself. You have never heard his voice or seen him face to face,

38and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe the one whom he has sent.

38 and you do not have his message in your hearts, because you do not believe me—the one he sent to you.

39You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,

39 “You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to me!

40yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.

40 Yet you refuse to come to me to receive this life.

41I do not receive glory from people.

41 “Your approval means nothing to me,

42But I know that you do not have the love of God within you.

42 because I know you don’t have God’s love within you.

43I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

43 For I have come to you in my Father’s name, and you have rejected me. Yet if others come in their own name, you gladly welcome them.

44How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?

44 No wonder you can’t believe! For you gladly honor each other, but you don’t care about the honor that comes from the one who alone is God.

45Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you: Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

45 “Yet it isn’t I who will accuse you before the Father. Moses will accuse you! Yes, Moses, in whom you put your hopes.

46For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me.

46 If you really believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me.

47But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”

47 But since you don’t believe what he wrote, how will you believe what I say?”

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