John 5:1-20 ▼

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

2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Hebrew called Bethesda, having five porches.

3 In these were lying a multitude of those ailing, blind, lame, and withered.

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5 And a certain man was there, being thirty and eight years in his ailment.

6 Jesus, having seen this one lying and having known that he has been a long time already, says to him, “Do you want to become well?”

7 The one ailing answered Him, “Sir, I do not have a man, that when the water might be stirred, he might put me into the pool; and while I am going, another goes down before me.”

8 Jesus says to him, “Arise, take up your mat, and walk.”

9 And immediately the man became well, and he took up his mat and was walking. And it was the Sabbath on that day.

10 Therefore the Jews were saying to the one having been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your mat.”

11 But he answered them, “The One having made me well, that One said to me, ‘Take up your mat and walk.’”

12 Therefore they asked him, “Who is the man having said to you, ‘Take it up and walk’?”

13 But the one having been healed did not know who it is, for Jesus moved away, a crowd being in the place.

14 After these things Jesus finds him in the temple and said to him, “Behold, you have become well. Sin no more, so that something worse might not happen to you.”

15 The man went away and declared to the Jews that Jesus is the One having made him well.

16 And because of this, the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.

17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”

18 Therefore because of this, the Jews were seeking more to kill Him, because not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was also calling God His own Father, making Himself equal to God.

19 Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you?, the Son is able to do nothing from Himself, if not anything He may see the Father doing; for whatever He may do, these things the Son also does likewise.

20 For the Father loves the Son and shows Him all things that He Himself does. And He will show Him greater works than these, so that you? may marvel.