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John 5:1¹After this there was a Jewish feast, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 16:16 Exod 23:14-17 Lev 23:2-4 Exod 34:23 John 2:13

John 5:2²Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool called Bethzatha in Aramaic, which has five covered walkways.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Neh 12:39 Neh 3:1 Isa 22:11 Neh 3:32 Acts 21:40 Isa 22:9 John 19:13 John 19:17 John 20:16

John 5:3³A great number of sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed people were lying in these walkways.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mark 3:1-4 Luke 7:22 Matt 15:30 Zech 11:17 Lam 3:26 Jas 5:7 1 Kgs 13:4 Prov 8:34 Rom 8:25

John 5:5⁵Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 3:2 Luke 8:43 Mark 9:21 Acts 14:8 Luke 13:16 Acts 9:33 John 5:14 John 9:1 Acts 4:22 John 9:21

John 5:6⁶When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized that the man had been disabled a long time already, he said to him, “Do you want to become well?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 18:41 Heb 4:15 Heb 4:13 Isa 65:1 John 21:17 Jer 13:27 Ps 142:3

John 5:7⁷The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get into the water, someone else goes down there before me.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 72:12 1 Cor 9:24 Deut 32:36 Ps 142:4 2 Cor 1:8-10 Rom 5:6 John 5:3

John 5:8⁸Jesus said to him, “Stand up! Pick up your mat and walk.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 5:24 Matt 9:6 Mark 2:11 Acts 9:34

John 5:9⁹Immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his mat and started walking. (Now that day was a Sabbath.)Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 3:7-8 John 9:14 Mark 3:2-4 Luke 13:10-16 Mark 1:31 Mark 1:42 Mark 10:52 Mark 5:29 Mark 5:41-42 Matt 12:10-13

John 5:10¹⁰So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 17:21 John 9:16 Luke 6:2 Luke 13:14 Mark 3:4 Mark 2:24 Neh 13:15-21 John 5:16 Matt 12:2-8 Exod 20:8-11

John 5:11¹¹But he answered them, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mark 2:9-11 John 9:16

John 5:12¹²They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk’?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 21:23 Judg 6:29 Rom 10:2 1 Sam 14:38

John 5:13¹³But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped out, since there was a crowd in that place.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 24:31 Luke 4:30 John 14:9 John 8:59

John 5:14¹⁴After this Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “Look, you have become well. Don’t sin any more, lest anything worse happen to you.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 8:11 Lev 26:23-24 Ps 118:18 Matt 12:45 Neh 9:28 Ps 107:20-22 Rev 2:21-23 Isa 38:20 Ps 27:6 2 Chr 28:22

John 5:15¹⁵The man went away and informed the Jewish leaders that Jesus was the one who had made him well.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 4:29 John 9:11-12 John 9:25 Mark 1:45 John 1:19 John 5:12 John 9:15 John 9:30 John 9:34

John 5:16¹⁶Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 9:4-5 John 10:39 John 15:20 John 5:13 John 7:19-20 John 7:25 Luke 6:11 Mark 3:6 Matt 12:13

John 5:17¹⁷So he told them, “My Father is working until now, and I too am working.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 9:4 John 14:10 1 Cor 12:6 Col 1:16 Heb 1:3 Gen 2:1-2 Isa 40:26 Acts 14:17 Acts 17:28 Matt 10:29

John 5:18¹⁸For this reason the Jewish leaders were trying even harder to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 10:30 John 10:33 John 19:7 John 8:58 John 14:23 John 5:23 John 7:1 John 7:19 John 8:54 Phil 2:6

John 5:19¹⁹So Jesus answered them, “I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 12:49 John 8:28 John 14:10 John 10:18 John 5:28-30 Rom 8:11 John 14:16-23 Luke 21:15 John 9:4 John 5:21

John 5:20²⁰For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he does, and will show him greater deeds than these, so that you will be amazed.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 3:35 Matt 3:17 Prov 8:22-31 2 Pet 1:17 John 15:15 John 17:26 John 1:18 John 10:32 John 12:45-47 John 14:12

John 5:21²¹For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rom 8:11 Deut 32:39 John 11:25 Acts 26:8 Luke 7:14-15 John 11:43-44 John 17:2 Luke 8:54-55 1 Kgs 17:21 2 Kgs 4:32-35

John 5:22²²Furthermore, the Father does not judge anyone, but has assigned all judgment to the Son,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 5:27 Acts 17:31 2 Cor 5:10 Matt 28:18 Acts 10:42 John 9:39 2 Tim 4:1 Rom 2:16 John 17:2 1 Pet 4:5

John 5:23²³so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 John 2:23 Luke 10:16 2 John 1:9 Matt 11:27 John 15:23-24 Jer 17:5-7 1 Thess 3:11-13 Luke 12:8-9 Eph 6:24 Heb 1:6

John 5:24²⁴“I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but has crossed over from death to life.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 3:36 John 6:40 1 John 5:11-13 John 3:18 Rom 8:1 John 11:26 John 6:47 John 10:27-30 John 3:16 1 Thess 5:9

John 5:25²⁵I tell you the solemn truth, a time is coming—and is now here—when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 5:28 Eph 5:14 Eph 2:5 John 4:23 Col 2:13 John 8:47 Rev 3:1 Rom 6:4 Eph 2:1 John 5:21

John 5:26²⁶For just as the Father has life in himself, thus he has granted the Son to have life in himself,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 1:4 John 11:26 Exod 3:14 John 14:6 John 17:2-3 1 Cor 15:45 1 Tim 1:17 Jer 10:10 Ps 36:9 1 John 1:1-3

John 5:27²⁷and he has granted the Son authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 10:42 Acts 17:31 John 5:22 1 Cor 15:25 1 Pet 3:22 Dan 7:13-14 Eph 1:20-23 Heb 2:7-9 Ps 110:6 Phil 2:7-11

John 5:28²⁸“Do not be amazed at this, because a time is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voiceCopy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 20:12 1 Thess 4:14-17 Isa 26:19 John 11:24-25 1 Cor 15:42-54 Job 19:25-26 1 Cor 15:22 John 6:39-40 Phil 3:21 Ezek 37:1-10

John 5:29²⁹and will come out—the ones who have done what is good to the resurrection resulting in life, and the ones who have done what is evil to the resurrection resulting in condemnation.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 12:2-3 Rom 2:6-10 Acts 24:15 Luke 14:14 Matt 25:31-46 Gal 6:8-10 1 Tim 6:18 Heb 13:16 1 Pet 3:11

John 5:30³⁰I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 6:38 John 5:19 John 4:34 John 14:10 Matt 26:39 John 8:28 Ps 40:7-8 John 8:15-16 Isa 11:3-4 Rom 15:3

John 5:31³¹“If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 27:2 John 8:54 John 8:13-14 Rev 3:14

John 5:32³²There is another who testifies about me, and I know the testimony he testifies about me is true.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 John 5:6-9 John 1:33 John 12:28-30 John 12:50 John 5:36-37 John 8:17-18 Matt 17:5 Matt 3:17 Luke 3:22 Mark 1:11

John 5:33³³You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 1:15-27 John 1:29-34 John 1:6-8 John 3:26-36

John 5:34³⁴(I do not accept human testimony, but I say this so that you may be saved.)Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 John 5:9 1 Tim 4:16 John 20:31 Luke 19:41-42 1 Cor 9:22 1 Tim 2:3-4 John 5:41 Rom 10:1 John 8:54 Luke 24:47

John 5:35³⁵He was a lamp that was burning and shining, and you wanted to rejoice greatly for a short time in his light.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Pet 1:19 John 1:7-8 Matt 11:11 Luke 1:76-77 Matt 3:5-7 John 6:66 Luke 1:15-17 Luke 7:28 Mark 6:20 Matt 11:7-9

John 5:36³⁶“But I have a testimony greater than that from John. For the deeds that the Father has assigned me to complete—the deeds I am now doing—testify about me that the Father has sent me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 10:25 John 10:37-38 John 15:24 John 2:23 1 John 5:9 John 9:30-33 John 3:2 1 John 5:11-12 Acts 2:22 John 14:10-11

John 5:37³⁷And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You people have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 8:18 John 1:18 Matt 3:17 1 Tim 1:17 1 John 4:12 1 John 4:20 1 Tim 6:16 1 John 1:1-2 Deut 4:12 Exod 20:19

John 5:38³⁸nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 John 2:14 Deut 6:6-9 John 12:44-48 Isa 53:1-3 Jas 1:21-22 Prov 7:1-2 Isa 49:7 John 1:11 John 15:7 John 3:17-21

John 5:39³⁹You study the scriptures thoroughly because you think in them you possess eternal life, and it is these same scriptures that testify about me,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 24:27 Luke 24:44 2 Pet 1:19-21 Acts 26:22-23 Prov 8:33-34 Matt 22:29 2 Tim 3:14-17 Isa 34:16 1 Pet 1:10-11 Acts 13:27

John 5:40⁴⁰but you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 3:19 John 1:11 John 6:37 Ps 81:11 1 John 5:11-13 Isa 49:7 Isa 50:2 John 6:40 John 7:37-38 John 8:45-46

John 5:41⁴¹“I do not accept praise from people,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 7:18 1 Thess 2:6 John 5:34 John 8:50 John 5:44 John 8:54 1 Pet 2:21 John 6:15 2 Pet 1:17

John 5:42⁴²but I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 John 4:20 1 John 2:15 1 John 3:17 John 2:25 Rom 8:7 John 8:47 Heb 4:12-13 John 1:47-49 John 15:23-24 John 21:17

John 5:43⁴³I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 10:25 Matt 24:5 Heb 5:4-5 John 17:4-6 John 6:38 John 8:28-29 John 12:28 Matt 24:24 John 3:16 Acts 5:36-37

John 5:44⁴⁴How can you believe, if you accept praise from one another and don’t seek the praise that comes from the only God?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 12:43 Rom 2:29 Phil 2:3 Matt 23:5 Rom 8:7-8 1 Pet 1:7 1 Sam 2:30 1 Cor 4:5 2 Chr 6:8 Luke 19:17

John 5:45⁴⁵“Do not suppose that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gal 3:10 Rom 3:19-20 2 Cor 3:7-11 Rom 2:12 John 9:28-29 Rom 10:5-10 John 7:19 Matt 19:7-8 Rom 2:17-29 John 8:5-6

John 5:46⁴⁶If you believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 18:15 Deut 18:18-19 John 1:45 Luke 24:27 Num 24:17-18 Acts 26:22 Gen 49:10 Gen 22:18 Num 21:8-9 Gen 12:3

John 5:47⁴⁷But if you do not believe what Moses wrote, how will you believe my words?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 16:31 Luke 16:29

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