John 5
5
Jesus Heals a Man at a Pool
1Later Jesus went to Jerusalem for a special Jewish feast. 2In Jerusalem there is a pool with five covered porches. In the Jewish language# Aramaic, the language of the Jews in the first century. it is called Bethzatha.# Also called Bethsaida or Bethesda, a pool of water north of the Temple in Jerusalem. This pool is near the Sheep Gate. 3Many sick people were lying on the porches beside the pool. Some were blind, some were crippled, and some were paralyzed [and they waited for the water to move. 4Sometimes an angel of the Lord came down to the pool and stirred up the water. After the angel did this, the first person to go into the pool was healed from any sickness he had].# Some Greek copies do not contain all or most of the bracketed text. 5There was a man lying there who had been sick for 38 years. 6Jesus saw the man and knew that he had been sick for a very long time. So Jesus asked him, “Do you want to be well?”
7The sick man answered, “Sir, there is no one to help me get into the pool when the water starts moving. I try to be the first one into the water. But when I try, someone else always goes in before I can.”
8Then Jesus said, “Stand up. Pick up your mat and walk.” 9And immediately the man was well. He picked up his mat and began to walk.
The day all this happened was a Sabbath day. 10So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “Today is the Sabbath. It is against our law for you to carry your mat on the Sabbath day.”
11But he answered, “The man who made me well told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”
12Then they asked him, “Who is the man who told you to pick up your mat and walk?”
13But the man who had been healed did not know who it was. There were many people in that place, and Jesus had left.
14Later, Jesus found the man at the Temple. Jesus said to him, “See, you are well now. But stop sinning or something worse may happen to you!”
15Then the man left and went back to the Jews. He told them that Jesus was the one who had made him well.
16Jesus was doing this on the Sabbath day. So the Jews began to do bad things to him. 17But Jesus said to them, “My Father never stops working. And so I work, too.”
18This made the Jews try harder to kill him. They said, “First Jesus was breaking the law about the Sabbath day. Then he said that God is his own Father! He is making himself equal with God!”
Jesus Has God’s Authority
19But Jesus said, “I tell you the truth. The Son can do nothing alone. The Son does only what he sees his Father doing. The Son does whatever the Father does. 20The Father loves the Son, and the Father shows the Son all the things he himself does. But the Father will show the Son greater things than this to do. Then you will all be amazed. 21The Father raises the dead and gives them life. In the same way, the Son gives life to those he wants to. 22Also, the Father judges no one. But the Father has given the Son power to do all the judging. 23God did this so that all people will respect the Son the same way they respect the Father. He who does not respect the Son does not respect the Father. The Father is the One who sent the Son.
24“I tell you the truth. Whoever hears what I say and believes in the One who sent me has eternal life. He will not be judged guilty. He has already left death and has entered into life. 25I tell you the truth. The time is coming and is already here when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God. And those who hear will have life. 26Life comes from the Father himself. So the Father has allowed the Son to give life. 27And the Father has given the Son the approval to judge because he is the Son of Man. 28Don’t be surprised at this. A time is coming when all who are dead and in their graves will hear his voice. 29Then they will come out of their graves. Those who did good will rise and have life forever. But those who did evil will rise to be judged guilty.
Jesus Is God’s Son
30“I can do nothing alone. I judge only the way I am told, so my judgment is right. I don’t try to please myself. I try to please the One who sent me.
31“If I tell people about myself, then they will not accept what I say about myself. 32But there is another who tells about me. And I know that the things he says about me are true.
33“You have sent men to John. And he has told you about the truth. 34But I don’t need a man to tell about me. I tell you this so that you can be saved. 35John was like a burning and shining lamp. And you were happy to enjoy his light for a while.
36“But I have a proof about myself that is greater than that of John. The things I do are my proof. These are the things my Father gave me to do. They show that the Father sent me. 37And the Father who sent me has given proof about me himself. You have never heard his voice. You have never seen what he looks like. 38His teaching does not live in you because you don’t believe in the One that the Father sent. 39You carefully study the Scriptures because you think that they give you eternal life. Those are the same Scriptures that tell about me! 40But you refuse to come to me to have that life.
41“I don’t want praise from men. 42But I know you—I know that you don’t have God’s love in you. 43I have come from my Father—I speak for him. But you don’t accept me. But when another person comes, speaking only for himself, you will accept him. 44You like to have praise from each other. But you never try to get the praise that comes from the only God. So how can you believe? 45Don’t think that I will stand before the Father and say that you are wrong. Moses is the one who says that you are wrong. And he is the one that you hoped would save you. 46If you really believed Moses, you would believe me because Moses wrote about me. 47But you don’t believe what Moses wrote. So how can you believe what I say?”
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Yoḥanan (John) 5
5
1After this there was a festival of the Yehuḏim, and יהושע went up to Yerushalayim.
2And in Yerushalayim at the Sheep Gate there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bĕyth Zatha, having five porches.
3In these were lying a great number of those who were sick, blind, crippled, paralysed, waiting for the stirring of the water.
4For a messenger was going down at a certain time into the pool and was stirring the water. Whoever stepped in first, then, after the stirring of the water, became well of whatever disease he had.
5And a certain man was there who had a sickness thirty-eight years.
6When יהושע saw him lying there, and knowing that he already had been a long time, He said to him, “Do you wish to become well?”
7The sick man answered Him, “Master, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred, but while I am coming, another steps down before me.”
8יהושע said to him, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.”
9And immediately the man became well, and he took up his bed and was walking. Now it was Sabbath on that day.
10The Yehuḏim therefore said to him who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, it is not right for you to take up the bed.”
11He answered them, “He who made me well said to me, ‘Take up your bed and walk.’ ”
12Therefore they asked him, “Who is the Man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?”
13But the one who was healed did not know who it was, for יהושע had moved away, a crowd being in that place.
14Afterward יהושע found him in the Set-apart Place, and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Sin no more, so that no worse matter befalls you.”#See also John 8:11
15The man went away, and told the Yehuḏim that it was יהושע who made him well.
16And because of this the Yehuḏim persecuted יהושע, and were seeking to kill Him, because He was doing these healings on the Sabbath.
17But יהושע answered them, “My Father works until now, and I work.”
18Because of this, then, the Yehuḏim were seeking all the more to kill Him, ‘because not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He also called Elohim His own Father, making Himself equal with Elohim.’
19Therefore יהושע responded and said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son is able to do none at all by Himself, but only that which He sees the Father doing, because whatever He does, the Son also likewise does.
20“For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all that He Himself does. And greater works than these He is going to show Him, in order that you marvel.
21“For as the Father raises the dead and makes alive, even so the Son makes alive whom He wishes.
22“For the Father judges no one, but has given all the judgment to the Son,
23that all should value the Son even as they value the Father. He who does not value the Son does not value the Father who sent Him.
24“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me possesses everlasting life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.
25“Truly, truly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of Elohim. And those having heard shall live.
26For as the Father possesses life in Himself, so He gave also to the Son to possess life in Himself,”
27and He has given Him authority also to do judgment, because He is the Son of Aḏam.
28“Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the tombs shall hear His voice,
29and shall come forth – those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have practised evil matters, to a resurrection of judgment.
30Of Myself I am unable to do any matter. As I hear, I judge, and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own desire, but the desire of the Father who sent Me.
31“If I bear witness of Myself, My witness is not true.
32“There is another who bears witness of Me, and I know that the witness which He witnesses of Me is true.
33“You have sent to Yoḥanan, and he bore witness to the truth.
34“But I do not receive witness from man, but I say this in order that you might be saved.
35“He was the burning and shining lamp, and for a while you wished to rejoice in his light.
36“But I have a greater witness than that of Yoḥanan, for the works that the Father gave Me to accomplish, the works that I do, bear witness of Me, that the Father has sent Me.
37And the Father who sent Me, He bore witness of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form.#See John 1:18
38“And you do not have His Word staying in you, because you do not believe Him whom He sent.
39“You search the Scriptures, because you think you possess everlasting life in them. And these are the ones that bear witness of Me.
40“But you do not desire to come to Me in order to possess life.
41I do not receive esteem from men,”
42but I know you, that you do not have the love of Elohim in 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 would receive.
44How are you able to believe, when you are receiving esteem from one another, and the esteem that is from the only Elohim you do not seek?”
45“Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you: Mosheh, in whom you have set your expectation.
46“For if you believed Mosheh, you would have believed Me, since he wrote about Me.
47“But if you do not believe his writings,#See Luke 16:31 how shall you believe My words?”
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