1 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made well of whatever disease he had.
5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he says to him, Do you desire to be made well?
7 The impotent man answered Him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steps down before me.
8 Jesus says to him, Rise, take up your bed, and walk.
9 And immediately the man was made well, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the Sabbath.
10 The Jews therefore said to him who was cured, It is the Sabbath day: it is not lawful for you to carry your bed.
11 He answered them, He who made me well, the same said to me, Take up your bed, and walk.
12 Then asked they him, What man is that which said to you, Take up your bed, and walk?
13 And he who was healed perceive not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed Himself away, a multitude being in that place.
14 Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, "You are made well. Don't wander from the path any more lest a worse thing come to you."
15 The man left and told the Jews that it was Jesus Who had made him well.
16 And therefore the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill Him because He had done these things on the Sabbath Day.
17 But Jesus answered them, "My Father works to this point, and I work."
18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill Him, because he not only had broken the Sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making Himself equal with God.
19 Then answered Jesus and said to them, Verily, verily, I say to you, The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what he sees the Father do: for whatever things he does, these also does the Son likewise.
20 For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that Himself does: and he will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel.
21 For as the Father raises up the dead, and makes them alive; even so the Son makes whom he will alive.
22 For the Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment to the Son:
23 That all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who honors not the Son honors not the Father which has sent Him.
24 Truly, truly, I say to you, He who hears My utterance, and believes on Him Who sent Me, has real, genuine, and absolute fullness of life of the Kingdom Age, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death into genuine and absolute fullness of 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 God: and those who hear shall have true life.
26 For as the Father has real, genuine, and absolute fullness of life in Himself; so He has granted that the Son have genuine and absolute fullness of life in Himself.
27 And has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of man.
28 Don't marvel at this, for the hour is coming in the which all who are in the graves shall hear His Voice,
29 And shall come out, those who have done good, into the resurrection of genuine and absolute fullness of life, and those who have done evil, into the resurrection of judgment and separation.
30 I can of my own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father which has 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 sent to John, and he gave a witness to the truth.
34 But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that you might be saved.
35 He was a burning and a appearing light: and you were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.
36 But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father has given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father has sent me.
37 And the Father Himself, which has sent me, has borne witness of me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.
38 And you do not have His utterance abiding in you: for Whom He has sent, Him you don't believe.
39 Search the scriptures; for in them you think you have real, genuine, and absolute fullness of life of the Kingdom Age: and they are they which testify of me. *
40 And you don't desire to come to Me so that you might have genuine and absolute fullness of life. *
41 I don't receive honor from men.
42 But I know you, that you don't have the love of God in you.
43 I am come in My Father's Name, and you don't receive Me. If another shall come in his own name, him you will receive.
44 How can you believe, you who receive honor from one another and don't seek the honor that comes only from God?
45 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one who accuses you, even Moses, into whom you have expectation.
46 For had you believed Moses, you would have believed Me: for he wrote of Me.
47 But if you don't believe his writings, how shall you believe My utterances?