Search results for: John 5:39-40
John 5:39 (NIV)
You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me,
John 5:40 (NIV)
yet you refuse to come to me to have life.
John 5:1 (NIV)
Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals.
John 5:2 (NIV)
Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.
John 5:3 (NIV)
Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.
John 5:5 (NIV)
One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
John 5:6 (NIV)
When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”
John 5:7 (NIV)
“Sir,” the invalid replied, “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.”
John 5:8 (NIV)
Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.”
John 5:9 (NIV)
At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath,
John 5:10 (NIV)
and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.”
John 5:11 (NIV)
But he replied, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’ ”
John 5:12 (NIV)
So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?”
John 5:13 (NIV)
The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.
John 5:14 (NIV)
Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.”
John 5:15 (NIV)
The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.
John 5:16 (NIV)
So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him.
John 5:17 (NIV)
In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.”
John 5:18 (NIV)
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.
John 5:19 (NIV)
Jesus gave them this answer: “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.
John 5:20 (NIV)
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.
John 5:21 (NIV)
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.
John 5:22 (NIV)
Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son,
John 5:23 (NIV)
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.
John 5:24 (NIV)
“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.