5:1  After these things there came a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

5:2  Now there locates in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which people call in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porticoes.

5:3  In these lay a multitude of those who had become sick, blind, lame, and withered, [waiting for the moving of the waters;

5:4  for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool and stirred up the water; whoever then first, after the stirring up of the water, stepped in became well from whatever disease with which had afflicted him.]

5:5  A man came there who had suffered illness for thirty-eight years.

5:6  When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had already suffered a long time in that condition, He said to him, "Do you wish to get well?"

5:7  The sick man answered Him, "Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water becomes stirred up, but while I come, another steps down before me."

5:8  Jesus said to him, "Get up, pick up your pallet and walk."

5:9  Immediately the man became well, and picked up his pallet and began to walk. Now it occurred on the Sabbath on that day.

5:10  Sothe Jews said to the man who had become healed, "The Sabbath has come, and we do not permit you to carry your pallet."

5:11  But he answered them, "He who made me well said to me, 'Pick up your pallet and walk.'"

5:12  They asked him, "Who said to you, 'Pick up your pallet and walk'?"

5:13  But the man who receive healing did not know who had healed him, for Jesus had slipped away while a crowd gathered in that place.

5:14  Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, "Behold, you have become well; do not sin anymore, so that nothing worse happens to you."

5:15  The man went away, and told the Jews that Jesus had made him well.

5:16  For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, because He did these things on the Sabbath.

5:17  But He answered them, "My Father has worked until now, and I Myself work."

5:18  For this reason therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He had not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

5:19  Therefore Jesus answered and said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it resembles something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner.

5:20  "For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself does; and the Father will show Him greater works than these, so that you will marvel.

5:21  "For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom He wishes.

5:22  "For not even the Father judges anyone, but He has given all judgment to the Son,

5:23  so that all will honor the Son even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

5:24  "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

5:25  "Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour comes and now has arrived, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

5:26  "For just as the Father has life in Himself, even so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself;

5:27  and He gave Him authority to execute judgment, because He serves as the Son of Man.

5:28  "Do not marvel at this; for an hour comes, in which all who lie in the tombs will hear His voice,

5:29  and will come forth; those who did the good deeds to a resurrection of life, those who committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment.

5:30  "I can do nothing on My own initiative. As I hear, I judge; and I use just judgment, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

5:31  "If I alone testify about Myself, My testimony does not have truth.

5:32  "There exists another who testifies of Me, and I know that the testimony which He gives about Me consists of the truth.

5:33  "You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.

5:34  "But the testimony which I receive does not come from man, but I say these things so that you may receive salvation.

5:35  "He resembled the lamp that burned and shone and you showed willingness to rejoice for a while in his light.

5:36  "But the testimony which I have proves greater than the testimony of John; for the works which the Father has given Me to accomplish--the very works that I do--testify about Me, that the Father has sent Me.

5:37  "And the Father who sent Me, He has testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time nor seen His form.

5:38  "You do not have His word abiding in you, for you do not believe Him whom He sent.

5:39  "You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; these scriptures testify about Me;

5:40  and you have become unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life.

5:41  "I do not receive glory from men;

5:42  but I know you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves.

5:43  "I have come in My Father's name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

5:44  "How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and you do not seek the glory that comes from the one and only God?

5:45  "Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; Moses accuses you Moses, in whom you have set your hope.

5:46  "For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me.

5:47  "But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?"