John 5:1

The NET Bible®

After this there was a Jewish feast, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
After this, a Jewish festival took place, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

King James Version (1611)
After this there was a feast of the Iewes, and Iesus went vp to Hierusalem.

King James Version
After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

English Standard Version
After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

New American Standard Bible
After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

New Century Version
Later Jesus went to Jerusalem for a special feast.

Amplified Bible
Later on there was a Jewish feast (festival), and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Legacy Standard Bible
After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Berean Standard Bible
Some time later there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Contemporary English Version
Later, Jesus went to Jerusalem for another Jewish festival.

Complete Jewish Bible
After this, there was a Judean festival; and Yeshua went up to Yerushalayim.

Darby Translation
After these things was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Easy-to-Read Version
Later, Jesus went to Jerusalem for a special Jewish festival.

Geneva Bible (1587)
After that, there was a feast of the Iewes, and Iesus went vp to Hierusalem.

George Lamsa Translation
AFTER these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Good News Translation
After this, Jesus went to Jerusalem for a religious festival.

Lexham English Bible
After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Literal Translation
After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

American Standard Version
After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Bible in Basic English
After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Hebrew Names Version
After these things, there was a feast of the Yehudim, and Yeshua went up to Yerushalayim.

International Standard Version
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Etheridge Translation
AFTER these there was a feast of the Jihudoyee, and Jeshu went up to Urishlem.

Murdock Translation
After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
After this, was there a feast day of the Iewes, and Iesus went vp to Hierusalem.

English Revised Version
After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

World English Bible
After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Weymouth's New Testament
After this there was a Festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Aftir these thingis ther was a feeste dai of Jewis, and Jhesus wente vp to Jerusalem.

Update Bible Version
After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Webster's Bible Translation
After this there was a feast of the Jews: and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

New King James Version
After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

New Living Translation
Afterward Jesus returned to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish holy days.

New Life Bible
Some time later, there was a religious gathering of the Jews. Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

New Revised Standard
After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
After these things, was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up unto Jerusalem.

Douay-Rheims Bible
After these things was a festival day of the Jews: and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Revised Standard Version
After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
After that ther was a feast of the Iewes and Iesus went vp to Ierusalem.

Young's Literal Translation
After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Afterwarde, there was a feast of the Iewes, and Iesus wente vpto Ierusalem.

Mace New Testament (1729)
Some time after this the feast of the Jews being come, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

THE MESSAGE
Soon another Feast came around and Jesus was back in Jerusalem. Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there was a pool, in Hebrew called Bethesda, with five alcoves. Hundreds of sick people—blind, crippled, paralyzed—were in these alcoves. One man had been an invalid there for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him stretched out by the pool and knew how long he had been there, he said, "Do you want to get well?"

Simplified Cowboy Version
Later on, Jesus went back to Jerusalem for another Jewish festival.

Contextual Overview

¹ After this there was a Jewish feast, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ² Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool called Bethzatha in Aramaic, which has five covered walkways. ³ A great number of sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed people were lying in these walkways. Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized that the man had been disabled a long time already, he said to him, "Do you want to become well?" The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get into the water, someone else goes down there before me." Jesus said to him, "Stand up! Pick up your mat and walk." Immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his mat and started walking. (Now that day was a Sabbath.) So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat." But he answered them, "The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.'" They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk'?" But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped out, since there was a crowd in that place. After this Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "Look, you have become well. Don't sin any more, lest anything worse happen to you." The man went away and informed the Jewish leaders that Jesus was the one who had made him well. Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him. So he told them, "My Father is working until now, and I too am working." For this reason the Jewish leaders were trying even harder to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God. So Jesus answered them, "I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise. For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he does, and will show him greater deeds than these, so that you will be amazed. For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes. Furthermore, the Father does not judge anyone, but has assigned all judgment to the Son, so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. "I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but has crossed over from death to life. I tell you the solemn truth, a time is coming—and is now here—when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For just as the Father has life in himself, thus he has granted the Son to have life in himself, and he has granted the Son authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man. "Do not be amazed at this, because a time is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and will come out—the ones who have done what is good to the resurrection resulting in life, and the ones who have done what is evil to the resurrection resulting in condemnation. I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me. "If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true. There is another who testifies about me, and I know the testimony he testifies about me is true. You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth. (I do not accept human testimony, but I say this so that you may be saved.) He was a lamp that was burning and shining, and you wanted to rejoice greatly for a short time in his light. "But I have a testimony greater than that from John. For the deeds that the Father has assigned me to complete—the deeds I am now doing—testify about me that the Father has sent me. And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You people have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time, nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent. You study the scriptures thoroughly because you think in them you possess eternal life, and it is these same scriptures that testify about me, ⁴ but you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life. "I do not accept praise from people, but I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you. I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him. How can you believe, if you accept praise from one another and don't seek the praise that comes from the only God? "Do not suppose that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope. If you believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me. But if you do not believe what Moses wrote, how will you believe my words?" ⁵ Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years. ⁶ When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized that the man had been disabled a long time already, he said to him, "Do you want to become well?" ⁷ The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get into the water, someone else goes down there before me." ⁸ Jesus said to him, "Stand up! Pick up your mat and walk." ⁹ Immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his mat and started walking. (Now that day was a Sabbath.) ¹⁰ So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

John 2:13, Exodus 23:14-17, Exodus 34:23, Leviticus 23:2-4, Deuteronomy 16:16, Matthew 3:15, Galatians 4:4

Reciprocal: Judges 21:19 - a feast Luke 19:26 - That unto John 6:4 - General John 11:55 - passover

Cross-References

Genesis 2:4
This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created—when the Lord God made the earth and heavens.

Genesis 5:26
Methuselah lived 782 years after he became the father of Lamech, and he had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:27
The entire lifetime of Methuselah was 969 years, and then he died.

Genesis 6:9
This is the account of Noah. Noah was a godly man; he was blameless among his contemporaries. He walked with God.

Genesis 10:1
This is the account of Noah's sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.

1 Chronicles 1:1
Adam, Seth, Enosh,

Ecclesiastes 7:29
This alone have I discovered: God made humankind upright, but they have sought many evil schemes.

Ecclesiastes 12:1
So remember your Creator in the days of your youth— before the difficult days come, and the years draw near when you will say, "I have no pleasure in them";

Matthew 1:1
This is the record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

1 Corinthians 11:7
For a man should not have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

After this there was a feast of the Jews,.... After Christ had been in Samaria, which was four months ago, John 4:35, and had been in Galilee for that time, and had cured the nobleman's son, and had done other mighty works, the time came on for one of the three festivals of the Jews; either the feast of Pentecost, as some think; or as others, the feast of tabernacles; or rather, the feast of the passover, so called, in John 4:45 since John is very particular, in giving an account of the several passovers, in Christ's ministry:

and Jesus went up to Jerusalem; according to the law of God, which obliged all the males to appear there at that time; and to show his compliance with it, and obedience to it, whom it became to fulfil all righteousness; and this he did also, that he might have an opportunity of discoursing, and doing his miracles before all the people, which came at this time, from the several parts of the land.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A feast - Probably the Passover, though it is not certain. There were two other feasts - the Pentecost and the Feast of Tabernacles - at which all the males were required to be present, and it might have been one of them. It is of no consequence, however, which of them is intended.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER V.

The man who had been diseased thirty-eight years healed on

the Sabbath day, 1-9.

The Jews cavil, persecute Christ, and seek to kill him, because

he had done this cure on the Sabbath, 10-16.

Our Lord vindicates his conduct, and shows, from the testimony

of the Father, the Scriptures, John the Baptist, and his own

works, that he came from God, to be the light and salvation of

the world, 17-39.

He reproves the Jews for their obstinacy, 40;

hatred to God, 41, 42;

pride, 43, 44;

and disbelief of their own law, 45-47.

NOTES ON CHAP. V.

Verse John 5:1. A feast — This is generally supposed, by the best critics, to have been the feast of the passover, which was the most eminent feast among the Jews. In several excellent MSS. the article is added, η εορτη, THE feast, the grand, the principal festival. Petavius supposes that the feast of Purim, or lots, is here meant; and one MS. reads η σκηνοπηγια, the feast of Tabernacles. Several of the primitive fathers believe Pentecost to be intended; and they are followed by many of the moderns, because, in John 7:2, mention is made of the feast of Tabernacles, which followed Pentecost, and was about the latter end of our September; and, in John 10:22, mention is made of the feast of Dedication, which was held about the latter end of November. See Bp. Pearce. See John 10:22.

Calmet, however, argues that there is no other feast with which all the circumstances marked here so well agree as with the passover; and Bp. Newcome, who is of Calmet's opinion, thinks Bp. Pearce's argument concerning the succession of the feasts to be inconclusive; because it is assumed, not proved, that the three feasts which he mentions above must have happened in the same year. See much on the same subject in Bp. Newcome's notes to his Harmony, p. 15, c.

Lightfoot has observed, that the other evangelists speak very sparingly of our Lord's acts in Judea. They mention nothing of the passovers, from our Lord's baptism till his death, excepting the very last: but John points at them all. The first he speaks of, John 2:13 the third, John 6:4; the fourth, John 13:1; and the second in this place: for although he does not call it the passover, but a feast in general, yet the circumstances agree best with this feast; and our Lord's words, John 4:35, seem to cast light on this subject. See the note there.