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         <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The End Times</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DAN.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people&#8212;everyone whose name is found written in the book&#8212;will be delivered. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DAN.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DAN.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Those who are wise</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">who impart wisdom</span></span></span><span class="content"> will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DAN.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But you, Daniel, roll up and seal the words of the scroll until the time of the end. Many will go here and there to increase knowledge.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DAN.12.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DAN.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then I, Daniel, looked, and there before me stood two others, one on this bank of the river and one on the opposite bank. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DAN.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">One of them said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, &#8220;How long will it be before these astonishing things are fulfilled?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DAN.12.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DAN.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, lifted his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and I heard him swear by him who lives forever, saying, &#8220;It will be for a time, times and half a time.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">a year, two years and half a year</span></span></span><span class="content"> When the power of the holy people has been finally broken, all these things will be completed.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DAN.12.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DAN.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I heard, but I did not understand. So I asked, &#8220;My lord, what will the outcome of all this be?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DAN.12.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DAN.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He replied, &#8220;Go your way, Daniel, because the words are rolled up and sealed until the time of the end. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DAN.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Many will be purified, made spotless and refined, but the wicked will continue to be wicked. None of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DAN.12.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DAN.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DAN.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches the end of the 1,335 days.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DAN.12.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DAN.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;As for you, go your way till the end. You will rest, and then at the end of the days you will rise to receive your allotted inheritance.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> that came to Hosea son of Beeri during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and during the reign of Jeroboam son of Jehoash</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Joash, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Jehoash</span></span></span><span class="content"> king of Israel:</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Hosea&#8217;s Wife and Children</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> began to speak through Hosea, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to him, &#8220;Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So he married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Hosea, &#8220;Call him Jezreel, because I will soon punish the house of Jehu for the massacre at Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">In that day I will break Israel&#8217;s bow in the Valley of Jezreel.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Gomer conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Hosea, &#8220;Call her Lo-Ruhamah (which means &#8220;not loved&#8221;), for I will no longer show love to Israel, that I should at all forgive them. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Yet I will show love to Judah; and I will save them&#8212;not by bow, sword or battle, or by horses and horsemen, but I, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> their God, will save them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">After she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, Gomer had another son. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;Call him Lo-Ammi (which means &#8220;not my people&#8221;), for you are not my people, and I am not your God.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">your <span class="nd">I am</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.1.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted. In the place where it was said to them, &#8216;You are not my people,&#8217; they will be called &#8216;children of the living God.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The people of Judah and the people of Israel will come together; they will appoint one leader and will come up out of the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:11 </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 1:10,11 is numbered 2:1,2.</span></span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">16</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.16.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">To humans belong the plans of the heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.16.1"><span class="content">but from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> comes the proper answer of the tongue.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.16.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.16.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">All a person&#8217;s ways seem pure to them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.16.2"><span class="content">but motives are weighed by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.16.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.16.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Commit to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> whatever you do,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.16.3"><span class="content">and he will establish your plans.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.16.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.16.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> works out everything to its proper end&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.16.4"><span class="content">even the wicked for a day of disaster.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.16.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.16.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> detests all the proud of heart.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.16.5"><span class="content">Be sure of this: They will not go unpunished.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.16.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.16.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Through love and faithfulness sin is atoned for;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.16.6"><span class="content">through the fear of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> evil is avoided.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.16.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.16.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> takes pleasure in anyone&#8217;s way,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.16.7"><span class="content">he causes their enemies to make peace with them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.16.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.16.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Better a little with righteousness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.16.8"><span class="content">than much gain with injustice.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.16.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.16.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">In their hearts humans plan their course,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.16.9"><span class="content">but the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> establishes their steps.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.16.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.16.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The lips of a king speak as an oracle,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.16.10"><span class="content">and his mouth does not betray justice.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.16.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.16.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Honest scales and balances belong to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.16.11"><span class="content">all the weights in the bag are of his making.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.16.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.16.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Kings detest wrongdoing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.16.12"><span class="content">for a throne is established through righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.16.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.16.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Kings take pleasure in honest lips;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.16.13"><span class="content">they value the one who speaks what is right.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.16.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.16.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">A king&#8217;s wrath is a messenger of death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.16.14"><span class="content">but the wise will appease it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.16.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.16.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When a king&#8217;s face brightens, it means life;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.16.15"><span class="content">his favor is like a rain cloud in spring.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.16.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.16.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">How much better to get wisdom than gold,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.16.16"><span class="content">to get insight rather than silver!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.16.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.16.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The highway of the upright avoids evil;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.16.17"><span class="content">those who guard their ways preserve their lives.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.16.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.16.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Pride goes before destruction,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.16.18"><span class="content">a haughty spirit before a fall.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.16.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.16.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Better to be lowly in spirit along with the oppressed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.16.19"><span class="content">than to share plunder with the proud.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.16.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.16.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Whoever gives heed to instruction prospers,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:20 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">whoever speaks prudently finds what is good</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.16.20"><span class="content">and blessed is the one who trusts in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.16.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.16.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The wise in heart are called discerning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.16.21"><span class="content">and gracious words promote instruction.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">words make a person persuasive</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.16.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.16.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Prudence is a fountain of life to the prudent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.16.22"><span class="content">but folly brings punishment to fools.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.16.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.16.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The hearts of the wise make their mouths prudent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.16.23"><span class="content">and their lips promote instruction.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:23 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">prudent / and make their lips persuasive</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.16.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.16.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Gracious words are a honeycomb,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.16.24"><span class="content">sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.16.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.16.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">There is a way that appears to be right,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.16.25"><span class="content">but in the end it leads to death.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.16.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.16.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The appetite of laborers works for them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.16.26"><span class="content">their hunger drives them on.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.16.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.16.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">A scoundrel plots evil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.16.27"><span class="content">and on their lips it is like a scorching fire.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.16.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.16.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">A perverse person stirs up conflict,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.16.28"><span class="content">and a gossip separates close friends.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.16.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.16.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">A violent person entices their neighbor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.16.29"><span class="content">and leads them down a path that is not good.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.16.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.16.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Whoever winks with their eye is plotting perversity;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.16.30"><span class="content">whoever purses their lips is bent on evil.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.16.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.16.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Gray hair is a crown of splendor;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.16.31"><span class="content">it is attained in the way of righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.16.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.16.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Better a patient person than a warrior,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.16.32"><span class="content">one with self-control than one who takes a city.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.16.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.16.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">The lot is cast into the lap,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.16.33"><span class="content">but its every decision is from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">5</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Healing at the Pool</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JHN.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JHN.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:2 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Bethzatha</span><span class="ft">; other manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Bethsaida</span></span></span><span class="content"> and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JHN.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Here a great number of disabled people used to lie&#8212;the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JHN.5.4"><span class="label">[4]</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:3,4 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts include here, wholly or in part, </span><span class="fqa">paralyzed&#8212;and they waited for the moving of the waters. </span><span class="fv">4 </span><span class="fqa">From time to time an angel of the Lord would come down and stir up the waters. The first one into the pool after each such disturbance would be cured of whatever disease they had.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do you want to get well?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.5.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Sir,&#8221; the invalid replied, &#8220;I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.5.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then Jesus said to him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.5.9"><span class="content">The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JHN.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, &#8220;It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JHN.5.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But he replied, &#8220;The man who made me well said to me, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;Pick up your mat and walk.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content"> &#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.5.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">So they asked him, &#8220;Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.5.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.5.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Authority of the Son</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.5.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">In his defense Jesus said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.5.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JHN.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Jesus gave them this answer: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these, so that you will be amazed.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JHN.5.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.5.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.5.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.5.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.5.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JHN.5.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.5.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.5.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JHN.5.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JHN.5.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and come out&#8212;those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JHN.5.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Testimonies About Jesus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JHN.5.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JHN.5.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JHN.5.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">There is another who testifies in my favor, and I know that his testimony about me is true.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JHN.5.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JHN.5.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You have sent to John and he has testified to the truth.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JHN.5.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Not that I accept human testimony; but I mention it that you may be saved.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JHN.5.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you chose for a time to enjoy his light.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JHN.5.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JHN.5.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I have testimony weightier than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to finish&#8212;the very works that I am doing&#8212;testify that the Father has sent me.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JHN.5.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You have never heard his voice nor seen his form,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JHN.5.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">nor does his word dwell in you, for you do not believe the one he sent.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JHN.5.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">You study</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:39 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fv">39 </span><span class="fqa">Study</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JHN.5.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">yet you refuse to come to me to have life.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JHN.5.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="JHN.5.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I do not accept glory from human beings,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="JHN.5.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">but I know you. I know that you do not have the love of God in your hearts.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="JHN.5.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I have come in my Father&#8217;s name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="JHN.5.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">How can you believe since you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the only God</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:44 </span><span class="ft">Some early manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">the Only One</span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">?</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="JHN.5.44"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="JHN.5.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But do not think I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom your hopes are set.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="JHN.5.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="JHN.5.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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