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¹ After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.² Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Hebrew called Beth-za'tha, which has five porticoes.³ In these lay a multitude of invalids, blind, lame, paralyzed.⁴ * [No text]⁵ One man was there, who had been ill for thirty-eight years.⁶ When Jesus saw him and knew that he had been lying there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be healed?"⁷ The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is troubled, and while I am going another steps down before me."⁸ Jesus said to him, "Rise, take up your pallet, and walk."⁹ And at once the man was healed, and he took up his pallet and walked. Now that day was the sabbath.¹⁰ So the Jews said to the man who was cured, "It is the sabbath, it is not lawful for you to carry your pallet."¹¹ But he answered them, "The man who healed me said to me, 'Take up your pallet, and walk.'"¹² They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take up your pallet, and walk'?"¹³ Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place.¹⁴ Afterward, Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse befall you."¹⁵ The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him.¹⁶ And this was why the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did this on the sabbath.

¹⁷ But Jesus answered them, "My Father is working still, and I am working."¹⁸ This was why the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath but also called God his Father, making himself equal with God.¹⁹ Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, that the Son does likewise.²⁰ For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all that he himself is doing; and greater works than these will he show him, that you may marvel.²¹ For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.²² The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,²³ that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.²⁴ Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me, has eternal life; he does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.²⁵ "Truly, truly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.²⁶ For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself,²⁷ and has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of man.²⁸ Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice²⁹ and come forth, those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.³⁰ "I can do nothing on my own authority; as I hear, I judge; and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

³¹ If I bear witness to myself, my testimony is not true;³² there is another who bears witness to me, and I know that the testimony which he bears to me is true.³³ You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth.³⁴ Not that the testimony which I receive is from man; but I say this that you may be saved.³⁵ He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.³⁶ But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John; for the works which the Father has granted me to accomplish, these very works which I am doing, bear me witness that the Father has sent me.³⁷ And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness to me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen;³⁸ and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe him whom he has sent.³⁹ You search the scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness to me;⁴⁰ yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.⁴¹ I do not receive glory from men.⁴² But I know that you have not the love of God within you.⁴³ I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive.⁴⁴ How can you believe, who receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?⁴⁵ Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; it is Moses who accuses you, on whom you set your hope.⁴⁶ If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote of me.⁴⁷ But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?"