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John 5, RSV

5:1 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

5:2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Hebrew called Beth-za'tha, which has five porticoes.

5:3 In these lay a multitude of invalids, blind, lame, paralyzed waiting for the stirring of the water;

5:4 for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool, and stirred up the water; whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was made well from whatever disease that person had.

5:5 One man was there, who had been ill for thirty-eight years.

5:6 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?"

5:7 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."

5:8 Jesus said to him, "Rise, take up your pallet, and walk."

5:9 And at once the man was healed, and he took up his pallet and walked. Now that day was the sabbath.

5:10 So the Jews said to the man who was cured, "It is the sabbath, it is not lawful for you to carry your pallet."

5:11 But he answered them, "The man who healed me said to me, `Take up your pallet, and walk.'"

5:12 They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, `Take up your pallet, and walk'?"

5:13 Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place.

5:14 Afterward, Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse befall you."

5:15 The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him.

5:16 And this was why the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did this on the sabbath.

5:17 But Jesus answered them, "My Father is working still, and I am working."

5:18 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.

5:19 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.

5:20 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.

5:21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.

5:22 The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,

5:23 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.

5:24 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.

5:25 "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.

5:26 For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself,

5:27 and has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of man.

5:28 Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice

5:29 and come forth, those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.

5:30 "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.

5:31 If I bear witness to myself, my testimony is not true;

5:32 there is another who bears witness to me, and I know that the testimony which he bears to me is true.

5:33 You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth.

5:34 Not that the testimony which I receive is from man; but I say this that you may be saved.

5:35 He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

5:36 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.

5:37 And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness to me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen;

5:38 and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe him whom he has sent.

5:39 You search the scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness to me;

5:40 yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.

5:41 I do not receive glory from men.

5:42 But I know that you have not the love of God within you.

5:43 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.

5:44 How can you believe, who receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?

5:45 Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; it is Moses who accuses you, on whom you set your hope.

5:46 If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote of me.

5:47 But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?"

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