John:5

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* After this there was a feast of the Jews , and Jesus went up to Jerusalem . * Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool , which is called in Hebrew , Bethesda , having five porches . * In these lay a multitude of disabled people , blind , lame , paralyzed . tcent @John:5:4 " /> * One man who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years . * When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been in this condition for a long time , he said to him , »Do you want to be made well ?« * The sick man answered him , »Sir , I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up ; but while I am coming , another steps down before me .« * Jesus said to him , »Rise , take up your bed , and walk .« * And at once the man was healed , and he took up his bed and walked . * So the Jews said to the man who was cured , »It is the Sabbath ; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed .« * But he answered them , »The man who made me well said to me , ‘Take up your bed , and walk .’« * They asked him , »Who is the man who said to you , ‘Take up your bed , and walk ’?« * Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was , for Jesus had withdrawn , as there was a crowd in that place . * Afterward , Jesus found him in the temple , and said to him , »See , you are well . Sin no more , so that nothing worse may happen to you .« * The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well . * For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus , because he was doing these things on the Sabbath . * But Jesus answered them , »My Father is working still , and I am working .« * Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him , because he not only broke the Sabbath , but also said that God was his Father , making himself equal with God . * Jesus said to them , »Truly , truly , I say to you , the Son can do nothing of himself , but only what he sees the Father doing ; for whatever he does , the Son also does . * 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 marvel . * For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them , even so the Son gives life to whom he will . * For the Father judges no one , but has given all judgment to the Son , * that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father . He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him . * Truly , truly , I say to you , he who hears my word and believes him who sent me , has eternal life ; and shall not come into judgment , but has passed from death to life . * Truly , truly , I say to you , the hour is coming , and now is , when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God ; and those who hear will live . * For as the Father has life in himself , so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself , * and has given him authority to execute judgment , because he is the Son of Man . * Do not marvel at this ; for the hour is coming when all who are in the graves will hear his voice * and come forth – those who have done good , to the resurrection of life , and those who have done evil , to the resurrection of judgment . * »I can do nothing of myself ; 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 . * »If I bear witness of myself , my testimony is not true . * There is another who bears witness of me , and I know that the testimony which he bears of me is true . * You have sent to John , and he has borne witness to the truth . * Not that the testimony which I receive is from man ; but I say this that you may be saved . * He was a burning and shining lamp , and you were willing to rejoice for a time in his light . * But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John ; for the works which the Father has given me to finish , these very works which I am doing , bear witness of me , that the Father has sent me . * And the Father who sent me has himself testified of me . You have never heard his voice , nor seen his form . * And you do not have his word abiding in you , for you do not believe him whom he has sent . * You search the Scriptures , because in them you think that you have eternal life ; and these are they that testify of me . * Yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life . * »I do not receive glory from men . * But I know you , that you do not have the love of God in you . * I have come in my Father 's name , and you do not receive me ; if another comes in his own name , him you will receive . * How can you believe , who receive glory from one another , and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God ? * Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father ; it is Moses who accuses you , on whom you set your hope . * If you believed Moses , you would believe me , for he wrote about me . * But if you do not believe his writings , how will you believe my words ?«

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