John:5

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* After this there was a feast of the Jews ; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem . * Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool , which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda , having five porches . * In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk , of blind , halt , withered , waiting for the moving of the water . * For 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 . * And a certain man was there , which had an infirmity thirty and eight years . * When Jesus saw him lie , and knew that he had been now a long time in that case , he says unto him , Will you be made whole ? * The 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 . * Jesus says unto him , Rise , take up your bed , and walk . * And immediately the man was made whole , and took up his bed , and walked : and on the same day was the sabbath . * The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured , It is the sabbath day : it is not lawful for you to carry your bed . * He answered them , He that made me whole , the same said unto me , Take up your bed , and walk . * Then asked they him , What man is that which said unto you , Take up your bed , and walk ? * And he that was healed know not who it was : for Jesus had conveyed himself away , a multitude being in that place . * Afterward Jesus finds him in the temple , and said unto him , Behold , you are made whole : sin no more , lest a worse thing come unto you . * The man departed , and told the Jews that it was Jesus , which had made him whole . * And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus , and sought to slay him , because he had done these things on the sabbath day . * But Jesus answered them , My Father works until now , and I work . * Therefore 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 . * Then answered Jesus and said unto them , Verily , verily , I say unto you , The Son can do nothing of himself , but what he sees the Father do : for what things whatsoever he does , these also does the Son likewise . * For the Father loves the Son , and shows him all things that himself does : and he will show him greater works than these , that all of you may marvel . * For as the Father raises up the dead , and replenishes life to them ; even so the Son gives life to whom he will . * For the Father judges no man , but has committed all judgment unto the Son : * That all men should honour the Son , even as they honour the Father . He that honors not the Son honors not the Father which has sent him . * Verily , verily , I say unto you , He that hears my word , (o . logos ) and believes on him that sent me , has everlasting life , and shall not come into condemnation ; but is passed from death unto life . * Verily , verily , I say unto you , 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 . * For as the Father has life in himself ; so has he given to the Son to have life in himself ; * And has given him authority to execute judgment also , because he is the Son of man . * Marvel not at this : for the hour is coming , in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice , * And shall come forth ; they that have done good , unto the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil , unto the resurrection of damnation . * I can of mine own self do nothing : as I hear , I judge : and my judgment is just ; because I seek not mine own will , but the will of the Father which has sent me . * If I bear witness of myself , my witness is not true . * There is another that bears witness of me ; and I know that the witness which he witnesses of me is true . * All of you sent unto John , and he bare witness unto the truth . * But I receive not testimony from man : but these things I say , that all of you might be saved . * He was a burning and a shining light : and all of you were willing for a season to rejoice in his light . * But 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 . * And the Father himself , which has sent me , has borne witness of me . All of you have neither heard his voice at any time , nor seen his shape . * And all of you have not his word (o . logos ) abiding in you : for whom he has sent , him all of you believe not . * Search the scriptures ; for in them all of you think all of you have eternal life : and they are they which testify of me . * And all of you will not come to me , that all of you might have life . * I receive not honour from men . * But I know you , that all of you have not the love (o . agape ) of God in you . * I am come in my Father 's name , and all of you receive me not : if another shall come in his own name , him all of you will receive . * How can all of you believe , which receive honour one of another , and seek not the honour that comes from God only ? * Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father : there is one that accuses you , even Moses , in whom all of you trust . * For had all of you believed Moses , all of you would have believed me ; for he wrote of me . * But if all of you believe not his writings , how shall all of you believe my words ? 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