John Chapter 5 of 21 about 5 min read

John 5

What happens in this chapter

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Verse 1. Some time later there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Verse 2. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool with five covered colonnades, which in Hebrew is called Bethesda.

Verse 3. On these walkways lay a great number of the sick, the blind, the lame, and the paralyzed.

Verse 4. nan

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

Verse 6. When Jesus saw him lying there and realized that he had spent a long time in this condition, He asked him, “Do you want to get well?”

Verse 7. “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am on my way, someone else goes in before me.”

Verse 8. Then Jesus told him, “Get up, pick up your mat, and walk.”

Verse 9. Immediately the man was made well, and he picked up his mat and began to walk. Now this happened on the Sabbath day,

Verse 10. so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “This is the Sabbath! It is unlawful for you to carry your mat.”

Verse 11. But he answered, “The man who made me well told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”

Verse 12. “Who is this man who told you to pick it up and walk?” they asked.

Verse 13. But the man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away while the crowd was there.

Verse 14. Afterward, Jesus found the man at the temple and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Stop sinning, or something worse may happen to you.”

Verse 15. And the man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

Verse 16. Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews began to persecute Him.

Verse 17. But Jesus answered them, “To this very day My Father is at His work, and I too am working.”

Verse 18. Because of this, the Jews tried all the harder to kill Him. Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

Verse 19. So Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing by Himself, unless He sees the Father doing it. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does.

Verse 20. The Father loves the Son and shows Him all He does. And to your amazement, He will show Him even greater works than these.

Verse 21. For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He wishes.

Verse 22. Furthermore, the Father judges no one, but has assigned all judgment to the Son,

Verse 23. so that 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.

Verse 24. Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.

Verse 25. Truly, truly, I tell you, the hour is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

Verse 26. For as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted the Son to have life in Himself.

Verse 27. And He has given Him authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of Man.

Verse 28. Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice

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

Verse 30. I can do nothing by Myself; I judge only as I hear. And My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

Verse 31. If I testify about Myself, My testimony is not valid.

Verse 32. There is another who testifies about Me, and I know that His testimony about Me is valid.

Verse 33. You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.

Verse 34. Even though I do not accept human testimony, I say these things so that you may be saved.

Verse 35. John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you were willing for a season to bask in his light.

Verse 36. But I have testimony more substantial than that of John. For the works that the Father has given Me to accomplish—the very works I am doing—testify about Me that the Father has sent Me.

Verse 37. And the Father who sent Me has Himself testified about Me. You have never heard His voice nor seen His form,

Verse 38. nor does His word abide in you, because you do not believe the One He sent.

Verse 39. You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me,

Verse 40. yet you refuse to come to Me to have life.

Verse 41. I do not accept glory from men,

Verse 42. but I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.

Verse 43. I have come in My Father’s name, and you have not received Me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will receive him.

Verse 44. How can you believe if you accept glory from one another, yet do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?

Verse 45. Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, in whom you have put your hope.

Verse 46. If you had believed Moses, you would believe Me, because he wrote about Me.

Verse 47. But since you do not believe what he wrote, how will you believe what I say?”