John 5 (NET)

John 5:1¹After this there was a Jewish feast, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 5:2²Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool called Bethzatha in Aramaic, which has five covered walkways.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 5:3³A great number of sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed people were lying in these walkways.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 5:5⁵Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

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 LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

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 LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 5:8⁸Jesus said to him, “Stand up! Pick up your mat and walk.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 5:9⁹Immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his mat and started walking. (Now that day was a Sabbath.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

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 LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 5:11¹¹But he answered them, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 5:12¹²They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk’?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

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 LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

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 LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 5:15¹⁵The man went away and informed the Jewish leaders that Jesus was the one who had made him well.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 5:16¹⁶Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 5:17¹⁷So he told them, “My Father is working until now, and I too am working.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

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 LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

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 LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

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 LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

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 LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 5:22²²Furthermore, the Father does not judge anyone, but has assigned all judgment to the Son,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

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 LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

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 LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

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 LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 5:26²⁶For just as the Father has life in himself, thus he has granted the Son to have life in himself,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 5:27²⁷and he has granted the Son authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

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 LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

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 LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

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 LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 5:31³¹“If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 5:32³²There is another who testifies about me, and I know the testimony he testifies about me is true.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 5:33³³You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 5:34³⁴(I do not accept human testimony, but I say this so that you may be saved.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

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 LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

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 LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

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 LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 5:38³⁸nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

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 LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 5:40⁴⁰but you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 5:41⁴¹“I do not accept praise from people,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 5:42⁴²but I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

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 LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

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 LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

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 LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 5:46⁴⁶If you believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

John 5:47⁴⁷But if you do not believe what Moses wrote, how will you believe my words?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions