1. After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2. Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
3. In these lay a great multitude of feeble persons, blind, lame, and paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water.
4. For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatever disease he had.
5. And a certain man was there, who had an infirmity thirty eight years.
6. When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been now a long time in that condition, he said to him, Do you want to be made whole?
7. The feeble man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steps down before me.
8. Jesus said to him, Rise, take up your bed, and walk.
9. And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and the same day was the sabbath.
10. The Jews therefore said to him who was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for you to carry your bed.
11. He answered them, He who made me whole, the same said to me, Take up your bed, and walk.
12. Then they asked him, What man is that who said to you, Take up your bed, and walk?
13. And he who was healed did not know who it was: for Jesus had gone away, a multitude being in that place.
14. Afterwards Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, Behold, you are made whole: sin no more, so that nothing worse comes to you.
15. The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, who had made him whole.
16. And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.
17. But Jesus answered them, My Father has been working thus far, and I work.
18. Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
19. Then answered Jesus and said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father do: for whatever things he does, these also does the Son likewise.
20. For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all things that himself does: and he will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel.
21. For as the Father raises up the dead, and gives them life; even so the Son gives life to whom he will.
22. For the Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment to the Son:
23. That all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who has sent him.
24. Truly, truly, I say to you, He who hears my word, and believes in him who sent me, has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but has passed from death to life.
25. Truly, truly, I say to you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and those who hear shall live.
26. For as the Father has life in himself; so has he given to the Son to have life in himself;
27. And has given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.
28. Do not marvel at this: for the hour is coming, in which all who are in the graves shall hear his voice,
29. And shall come forth; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of damnation.
30. I can of my own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the Father who has sent me.
31. If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.
32. There is another that bears witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesses of me is true.
33. You sent to John, and he bore witness to the truth.
34. But I do not receive testimony from man: but these things I say, that you might be saved.
35. He was a burning and a shining light: and you were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.
36. But I have a greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father has given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father has sent me.
37. And the Father himself, who has sent me, has borne witness of me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.
38. And you do not have his word abiding in you: for whom he has sent, him you do not believe.
39. Search the scriptures; for in them you think that you have eternal life: and they are that which testifies of me.
40. And you will not come to me, that you might have life.
41. I do not receive honor from men.
42. But I know you, that you do not have the love of God in you.
43. I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me: if another shall come in his own name, him you will receive.
44. How can you believe, who receive honor from one another, and do not seek the honor that comes from God only?
45. Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuses you, even Moses, in whom you trust.
46. For if you had believed Moses, you would have believed me: for he wrote of me.
47. But if you do not believe his writings, how shall you believe my words?
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