John 5:1-26 ▼

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

2 Now there is in Jerusalem, near the sheep gate, a pool, called, in the Hebrew tongue, Bethesda, with five porches.

3 In these lay a great multitude of sick persons, blind, lame, withered, who waited for the moving of the water.

4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and stirred the water. Then he who entered first after the motion of the water, was cured of whatever disease he had.

5 And a certain man was there, who had been sick thirty-eight years.

6 When Jesus saw him lying, and knew that he had been already a long time in that condition, he said to him: Do you wish to be restored to health?

7 The sick man answered him: Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred; but while I am coming, another goes down before me.

8 Jesus said to him: Arise, take up your bed and walk.

9 And the man was immediately restored to health; and he took up his bed and walked. And that day was the sabbath.

10 The Jews, therefore, said to him that was cured: It is the sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed.

11 He answered them: He that restored me to health said to me, Take up your bed and walk.

12 Then they asked him: Who is he that said to you, Take up your bed and walk?

13 But he that had been restored to health knew not who he was; for Jesus had withdrawn himself, because a multitude was in the place.

14 After this Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him: Behold, you have been restored to health; sin no more, lest some worse thing befall you.

15 The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus that had restored him to health.

16 And for this reason did the Jews persecute Jesus, and seek to kill him, because he had done these things on the sabbath.

17 But Jesus answered them: My Father works till now, and I also work.

18 For this reason, therefore, the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he had not only broken the sabbath, but also said that God was his own father, making himself equal with God.

19 Then Jesus answered and said to them: Verily, verily I say to you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father do; for whatever things he does, these also the Son does in like manner.

20 For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does; and he will show him greater works than these, that you may be astonished.

21 For as the Father raises the dead, and makes them alive, so also the Son makes alive whom he will.

22 For the Father judges no one, but has given all judicial authority to the Son;

23 that all may honor the Son, as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son, honors not the Father who sent him.

24 Verily, verily I say to you, He that hears my word, and believes on him that sent me, has eternal life, and comes not into condemnation, but has passed from death into life.

25 Verily, verily I say to you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear, shall live.

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