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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John 5
5
Jesus Heals a Sick Man
1Later, Jesus went to Jerusalem for another Jewish festival.#5.1 another Jewish festival: Either the Festival of Shelters or Passover. 2In the city near the sheep gate was a pool with five porches, and its name in Hebrew was Bethzatha.#5.2 Bethzatha: Some manuscripts have “Bethesda” and others have “Bethsaida.”
3-4Many sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed people were lying close to the pool.#5.3,4 pool: Some manuscripts add, “They were waiting for the water to be stirred, because an angel from the Lord would sometimes come down and stir it. The first person to get into the pool after that would be healed.”
5Beside the pool was a man who had been sick for 38 years. 6When Jesus saw the man and realized that he had been crippled for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to be healed?”
7The man answered, “Sir, I don't have anyone to put me in the pool when the water is stirred up. I try to get in, but someone else always gets there first.”
8Jesus told him, “Pick up your mat and walk!” 9Right then the man was healed. He picked up his mat and started walking around. The day on which this happened was a Sabbath.
10 #
Ne 13.19; Jr 17.21-24. When the Jewish leaders saw the man carrying his mat, they said to him, “This is the Sabbath! No one is allowed to carry a mat on the Sabbath.”
11But he replied, “The man who healed me told me to pick up my mat and walk.”
12They asked him, “Who is this man that told you to pick up your mat and walk?” 13But he did not know who Jesus was, and Jesus had left because of the crowd.
14Later, Jesus met the man in the temple and told him, “You are now well. But don't sin anymore or something worse might happen to you.” 15The man left and told the leaders that Jesus was the one who had healed him. 16They started making a lot of trouble for Jesus because he did things like this on the Sabbath.
17But Jesus said, “My Father has never stopped working, and this is why I keep on working.” 18#Ws 2.16. Now the leaders wanted to kill Jesus for two reasons. First, he had broken the law of the Sabbath. But even worse, he had said God was his Father, which made him equal with God.
The Son's Authority
19Jesus told the people:
I tell you for certain the Son cannot do anything on his own. He can do only what he sees the Father doing, and he does exactly what he sees the Father do. 20The Father loves the Son and has shown him everything he does. The Father will show him even greater things, and you will be amazed. 21Just as the Father raises the dead and gives life, so the Son gives life to anyone he wants to.
22The Father doesn't judge anyone, but he has made his Son the judge of everyone. 23The Father wants all people to honor the Son as much as they honor him. When anyone refuses to honor the Son, this is the same as refusing to honor the Father who sent him. 24I tell you for certain that everyone who hears my message and has faith in the one who sent me has eternal life and will never be condemned. They have already gone from death to life.
25I tell you for certain the time will come, and it is already here, when all of the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God. And those who listen to it will live! 26The Father has the power to give life, and he has given that same power to the Son. 27And he has given his Son the right to judge everyone, because he is the Son of Man.
28Don't be surprised! The time will come when all of the dead will hear the voice of the Son of Man, 29#Dn 12.2. and they will come out of their graves. Everyone who has done good things will rise to life, but everyone who has done evil things will rise and be condemned.
30I cannot do anything on my own. The Father sent me, and he is the one who told me how to judge. I judge with fairness, because I obey him, and I don't just try to please myself.
Witnesses to Jesus
31If I speak for myself, there is no way to prove I am telling the truth. 32But there is someone else who speaks for me, and I know what he says is true. 33#Jn 1.19-27; 3.27-30. You sent messengers to John, and he told them the truth. 34I don't depend on what people say about me, but I tell you these things so that you may be saved. 35#Si 48.1. John was a lamp that gave a lot of light, and you were glad to enjoy his light for a while.
36But something more important than John speaks for me. I mean the things that the Father has given me to do! All of these speak for me and prove that the Father sent me.
37 #
Mt 3.17; Mk 1.11; Lk 3.22. The Father who sent me also speaks for me, but you have never heard his voice or seen him face to face. 38You have not believed his message, because you refused to have faith in the one he sent.
39 #
Ba 4.1. You search the Scriptures, because you think you will find eternal life in them. The Scriptures tell about me, 40but you refuse to come to me for eternal life.
41I don't care about human praise, 42but I do know that none of you love God. 43I have come with my Father's authority, and you have not welcomed me. But you will welcome people who come on their own. 44How could you possibly believe? You like to have your friends praise you, and you don't care about praise that the only God can give!
45Don't think that I will be the one to accuse you to the Father. You have put your hope in Moses, yet he is the very one who will accuse you. 46Moses wrote about me, and if you had believed Moses, you would have believed me. 47But if you don't believe what Moses wrote, how can you believe what I say?
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