John 1-30.
John 5:1-30 (Good News Translation)
1After this, Jesus went to Jerusalem for a religious festival.
2Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there is a pool
with five porches; in Hebrew it is called Bethzatha.
3A large crowd of sick people were lying on the porches—the
blind, the lame, and the paralyzed.
5A man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.
6Jesus saw him lying there, and he knew that the man had been
sick for such a long time; so he asked him,
Do you want to get well?
7The sick man answered,
Sir, I don't have anyone here to put me in the pool when the
water is stirred up; while I am trying to get in, somebody else gets there
first.
8Jesus said to him,
Get up, pick up your mat, and walk.
9Immediately the man got well; he picked up his mat and started
walking.
The day this happened was a Sabbath,
10so the Jewish authorities told the man who had been healed,
This is a Sabbath, and it is against our Law for you to carry
your mat.
11He answered,
The man who made me well told me to pick up my mat and walk.
12They asked him,
Who is the man who told you to do this?
13But the man who had been healed did not know who Jesus was,
for there was a crowd in that place, and Jesus had slipped away.
14Afterward, Jesus found him in the Temple and said,
Listen, you are well now; so stop sinning or something worse may
happen to you.
15Then the man left and told the Jewish authorities that it was
Jesus who had healed him.
16So they began to persecute Jesus, because he had done this
healing on a Sabbath.
17Jesus answered them,
My Father is always working, and I too must work.
18This saying made the Jewish authorities all the more
determined to kill him; not only had he broken the Sabbath law, but he had
said that God was his own Father and in this way had made himself equal
with God.
19So Jesus answered them,
I tell you the truth: the Son can do nothing on his own; he does
only what he sees his Father doing. What the Father does, the Son also
does.
20For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he
himself is doing. He will show him even greater things to do than this,
and you will all be amazed.
21Just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, in
the same way the Son gives life to those he wants to.
22Nor does the Father himself judge anyone. He has given his
Son the full right to judge,
23so that all will honor the Son in the same way as they honor
the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who
sent him.
24I am telling you the truth: those who hear my words and
believe in him who sent me have eternal life. They will not be judged, but
have already passed from death to life.
25I am telling you the truth: the time is coming—the time has
already come—when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and
those who hear it will come to life.
26Just as the Father is himself the source of life, in the same
way he has made his Son to be the source of life.
27And he has given the Son the right to judge, because he is
the Son of Man.
28Do not be surprised at this; the time is coming when all the
dead will hear his voice
29and come out of their graves: those who have done good will
rise and live, and those who have done evil will rise and be condemned.
30I can do nothing on my own authority; I judge only as God
tells me, so my judgment is right, because I am not trying to do what I
want, but only what he who sent me wants.
God bless you.
1After this, Jesus went to Jerusalem for a religious festival.
2Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there is a pool
with five porches; in Hebrew it is called Bethzatha.
3A large crowd of sick people were lying on the porches—the
blind, the lame, and the paralyzed.
5A man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.
6Jesus saw him lying there, and he knew that the man had been
sick for such a long time; so he asked him,
Do you want to get well?
7The sick man answered,
Sir, I don't have anyone here to put me in the pool when the
water is stirred up; while I am trying to get in, somebody else gets there
first.
8Jesus said to him,
Get up, pick up your mat, and walk.
9Immediately the man got well; he picked up his mat and started
walking.
The day this happened was a Sabbath,
10so the Jewish authorities told the man who had been healed,
This is a Sabbath, and it is against our Law for you to carry
your mat.
11He answered,
The man who made me well told me to pick up my mat and walk.
12They asked him,
Who is the man who told you to do this?
13But the man who had been healed did not know who Jesus was,
for there was a crowd in that place, and Jesus had slipped away.
14Afterward, Jesus found him in the Temple and said,
Listen, you are well now; so stop sinning or something worse may
happen to you.
15Then the man left and told the Jewish authorities that it was
Jesus who had healed him.
16So they began to persecute Jesus, because he had done this
healing on a Sabbath.
17Jesus answered them,
My Father is always working, and I too must work.
18This saying made the Jewish authorities all the more
determined to kill him; not only had he broken the Sabbath law, but he had
said that God was his own Father and in this way had made himself equal
with God.
19So Jesus answered them,
I tell you the truth: the Son can do nothing on his own; he does
only what he sees his Father doing. What the Father does, the Son also
does.
20For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he
himself is doing. He will show him even greater things to do than this,
and you will all be amazed.
21Just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, in
the same way the Son gives life to those he wants to.
22Nor does the Father himself judge anyone. He has given his
Son the full right to judge,
23so that all will honor the Son in the same way as they honor
the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who
sent him.
24I am telling you the truth: those who hear my words and
believe in him who sent me have eternal life. They will not be judged, but
have already passed from death to life.
25I am telling you the truth: the time is coming—the time has
already come—when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and
those who hear it will come to life.
26Just as the Father is himself the source of life, in the same
way he has made his Son to be the source of life.
27And he has given the Son the right to judge, because he is
the Son of Man.
28Do not be surprised at this; the time is coming when all the
dead will hear his voice
29and come out of their graves: those who have done good will
rise and live, and those who have done evil will rise and be condemned.
30I can do nothing on my own authority; I judge only as God
tells me, so my judgment is right, because I am not trying to do what I
want, but only what he who sent me wants.
God bless you.
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