John:5

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* After this the Jews had a Festival , and Jesus went up to Jerusalem . * There is a pool by the sheep-market gate at Jerusalem . It is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethzatha . It has five porches . * In these lay a great crowd of sick people , of blind and lame waiting for the water to bubble up . nsb @John:5:4 " /> * A man who had an infirmity for thirty-eight years was present . * Jesus saw him lying there . He knew that he had been sick for a long time . So he asked him : »Do you want to get well ?« * The sick man replied : »I have no man to put me in the pool when the water is stirred . Others step down before I can go .« * Jesus said : »Arise pick up your bed and walk .« * Immediately the man was made whole . He picked up his bed and walked . It happened on the Sabbath day . * So the Jews told the man who was cured : »It is not lawful for you to pickup your bed for it is the Sabbath .« * He answered : »He who made me whole told me to pick up my bed and walk .« * »Who is the man ,« they asked , »that said to you pick up your bed and walk ?« * He did not know who healed him for Jesus quietly left the crowd . * Later Jesus found him in the temple and told him : »Now that you are healed do not sin anymore and avoid worse things happening to you .« * The man went away and told the Jews Jesus made him whole . * The Jews persecuted Jesus because he did these things on the Sabbath . * Jesus responded to them : »My Father works until now and I work .« * The Jews intensified their efforts to kill him for these reasons : he broke the Sabbath and he also called God his own Father , making himself equal with God . * Jesus answered them : »Truly I tell you the Son can do nothing by himself . He sees the Father do something and then he does it . Whatever the Father does the Son does in like manner . * »The Father loves the Son . He shows him all of the things he does . He will show him greater works than these . And you will marvel . * »The Father raises the dead and gives them life . The Son also gives life to those he wills . * »The Father does not judge any man for he has given all judgment to the Son . * »All may honor the Son , even as they honor the Father . He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father that sent him . * »Truly , Truly I say to you , he who hears my word , and believes him that sent me , has everlasting life . He will not receive judgment for he has passed out of death into life . * »Truly I tell you , the hour is coming when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live . * »The Son has life in himself just as the Father has life in himself . For the Father gave him life . * »And he gave him authority to execute judgment , because he is the Son of man . * »Do not wonder about this for the hour is coming when everyone in the grave will hear his voice . * »They will return . Those who did good will have the resurrection of life . Those who did evil will receive the resurrection of judgment . * »I can do nothing by myself . So I hear and judge and my judgment is righteous . I do not seek my own will , but the will of him that sent me . * »If I alone testify about myself , my testimony is not enough truth . * »There is another who testifies about me . I know that his evidence about me is true . * »You sent people to John the Baptist and he has witnessed about the truth . * »The testimony I receive is not from man . However I say these things that you may be saved . * »He was the lamp that burns and shines . You were willing to rejoice for a season in his light . * »The testimony I have is greater than that of John . The works I do are the works the Father gave me to accomplish . They testify that the Father has sent me . * »The Father who sent me testifies about me . You have not heard his voice nor seen him at any time . * »You do not have his word dwelling in you . This is because you do not believe in the person he has sent . * »You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have everlasting life . These Scriptures testify about me . * »And yet you will not come to me that you may have life . * »I do not accept glory from men . * »I know that the love of God is not in you . * »I came in my Father ’s name and you did not receive me . If another came in his own name you would receive him . * »How can you believe ? You seek praise and glory from one another ? Why do you not seek the glory that comes from the only God ? * »Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father . Moses on whom you have set your hope is a plaintiff against you . * »It is a fact ! If you believed Moses you would believe me . He wrote about me ! * »If you do not believe his writings how will you believe my words ?«

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