1SOME time later came one of the Jewish feastdays and Jesus I went up to Jerusalem.
2There is in Jerusalem near the sheeppens a pool surrounded by five arches, which has the Hebrew name of Bethzatha.
3Under these arches a great many sick people were in the habit of lying; some of them were blind, some lame, and some had withered limbs.
4(They used to wait there for the "moving of the water", for at certain times an angel used to come down into the pool and disturb the water, and then the first person who stepped into the water after the disturbance would be healed of whatever he was suffering from.)
5One particular man had been there ill for thirtyeight years.
6When Jesus saw him lying there on his backknowing that he had been like that for a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to get well again?"
7"Sir," replied the sick man, "I haven't got anybody to put me into the pool when the water is all stirred up. While I'm trying to get there somebody else gets down into it first."
8"Get up," said Jesus, "pick up your bed and walk!"
9At once the man recovered, picked up his bed and began to walk.
10This happened on a Sabbath day, which made the Jews keep on telling the man who had been healed, "It's the Sabbath; it is not right for you to carry your bed."
11"The man who made me well," he replied, "was the one who told me, 'Pick up your bed and walk.'"
12Then they asked him, "And who is the man who told you to do that?"
13But the one who had been healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away in the dense crowd.
14Later Jesus found him in the Temple and said to him, "Look: you are a fit men now. Do not sin again or something worse might happen to you!"
15Then the man went off and informed the Jews that the one who had made into well was Jesus.
16It was because Jesus did such things on the Sabbath day that the Jews persecuted him.
17But Jesus' answer to them was this, "My Father is still at work and therefore I work as well."
18This remark made the Jews all the more determined to kill him, because not only did he break the Sabbath but he referred to God as his own Father, so putting himself on equal terms with God.
19Jesus therefore said to them, "I solemnly assure you that the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does the Son does the same.
20For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything that he does himself. Yes, and he will show him even greater things than these to fill you with wonder.
21For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them live, so does the Son give life to may man he chooses.
22The Father is no man's judge: he has put judgment entirely into the Son's hands,
23so that all men may honour the Son equally with the Father. The man who does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent him.
24I solemnly assure you that the man who hears what I have to say and believes in the one who has sent me has eternal life. He does not have to face judgment; he has already passed from death into life.
25Yes, I assure you that a time is coming, in fact has already come, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who have heard it will live!
26For just as the Father has life in himself, so by the Father's gift, the Son also has life in himself.
27And he has given him authority to judge because he is Son of Man.
28No, do not be surprisedthe time is coming when all those who are dead and buried will hear his voice
29and out they will comethose who have done right will rise again to life, but those who have done wrong will rise to face judgment!
30"By myself I can do nothing. As I hear from God, I judge, and my just is true because I do not live to please myself but to do the will of the Father who sent me.
31You may say that I am bearing witness about myself, that therefore what I say about myself has no value,
32but I would remind you that there is one who witnesses about me and I know that his witness about me is, absolutely true.
33You sent to John, and he testified to the truth.
34Not that it is man's testimony that I needI only tell you this to help you to be saved.
35John certainly was a lamp that burned and shone, and for a time you were willing to enjoy the light that he gave.
36But I have a higher testimony than John's. The work that the Father gave me to complete, yes, these very actions which I do are my witness that the Father has sent me.
37This is how the Father who has sent me has given his own personal testimony to me. "Now you have never at any time heard what he says or seen what he is like.
38Nor do you really allow his word to find a home in your hearts, for you refuse to believe the man whom he has sent.
39You pore over the scriptures for you imagine that you will find eternal life in them. All the time they give their testimony to me,
40but you are not willing to come to me to have real life!
41I do not need the praise of men,
42but I can tell that you have none of the love of God in your hearts.
43I have come in the name of my Father and you will not accept me. Yet if another man comes simply in his own name, you will accept him.
44How on earth can you believe while you are for ever looking for each other's approval and not for the glory that comes from the one God?
45There is no need for you to think that I have come to accuse you before the Father. You already have an accuserMoses, in whom you put all your confidence!
46For if you really believed Moses, you would be bound to believe me; for it was about me that he wrote.
47But if you do not believe what he wrote, how can you believe what I say?"
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