John - Chapter 5

Passage

After these things there was a festival day of the Jews: and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is at Jerusalem a pond, called Probatica, which in Hebrew is named Bethsaida, having five porches. In these lay a great crowd of sick people, of blind, of lame, of withered, waiting for the moving of the water. And an angel of the Lord came down at certain times into the pond, and the water was stirred. And whoever went down first into the pond after the stirring of the water was made whole of whatever sickness he had. And there was a certain man there who had been sick for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been sick a long time, he said to him: Do you want to be made whole? The sick man answered him: Sir, I have no one to put me into the pond when the water is stirred. For while I am coming, another goes down before me. Jesus said to him: Arise, take up your bed and walk. And immediately the man was made whole: and he took up his bed and walked. And it was the sabbath that day. The Jews therefore said to the man who was healed: It is the sabbath. It is not lawful for you to take up your bed. He answered them: He who made me whole said to me: Take up your bed and walk. They asked him therefore: Who is that man who said to you: Take up your bed and walk? But the man who was healed did not know who it was: for Jesus had slipped away from the crowd that was in the place. Afterwards, Jesus found him in the temple and said to him: Behold, you are made whole: sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you. The man went his way and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him whole. That is why the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath. But Jesus answered them: My Father works until now; and I work. For this reason therefore the Jews tried all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath but also said God was his Father, making himself equal to God. Then Jesus answered and said to them: Amen, amen, I say to you, the Son cannot do anything of himself, but only what he sees the Father doing: for whatever he does, the Son also does in the same way. For the Father loves the Son and shows him all things which he himself does: and he will show him greater works than these, so that you may wonder. For as the Father raises up the dead and gives life: so the Son also gives life to whom he will. For the Father does not judge anyone: but has given all judgment to the Son, So that all men may honor the Son, as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who has sent him. Amen, amen, I say to you that he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has life everlasting: and does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. Amen, amen, I say to you that the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and those who hear shall live. For as the Father has life in himself, so he has given to the Son also to have life in himself. And he has given him power to carry out judgment, because he is the Son of man. Do not wonder at this: for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves shall hear the voice of the Son of God. And those who have done good things shall come forth to the resurrection of life: but those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment. I cannot do anything of myself. As I hear, so I judge. And my judgment is just: because I do not seek my own will, but the will of him who sent me. If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. There is another who bears witness of me: and I know that the witness which he gives of me is true. You sent to John: and he gave testimony to the truth. But I do not receive testimony from man: but I say these things so that you may be saved. He was a burning and a shining light: and you were willing for a time to rejoice in his light. But I have a greater testimony than that of John: for the works which the Father has given me to complete, the very works which I do, give testimony of me, that the Father has sent me. And the Father himself who has sent me has given testimony 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. Search the scriptures: for you think that in them you have life everlasting. And they are the ones that give testimony of me. And you will not come to me so 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 the name of my Father, 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 which is from God alone? Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, Moses, in whom you trust. For if you believed Moses, you would perhaps believe me also: for he wrote of me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?