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          DASV: John 5    

1 After this there was a feast of the Jews, so Jesus went up
to Jerusalem.
2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool,
which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, which has five
porticoes.
3 In these there lay a large number of sick, blind, lame
and paralyzed.
[Some less significant manuscripts have: "waiting for
the moving of the water.
4 for an angel of the Lord went down at certain times
into the pool, and stirred the water. Whoever first
stepped in after the stirring of the waters was cured,
of whatever disease he had.]
5 One man who was there had his disability for thirty-eight
years.
6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and realized that he
had been there for a long time, he asked him, "Would
you like to be made well?"
7 The sick man replied, "Sir, I have no one, when the
water stirs, to put me into the pool, but while I am
coming, someone else steps down before me."
8 Jesus said to him, "Get up, pick up your mat and walk."
9 Immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his
mat and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath.

10 The Jews said to the one who had been cured, "It is
the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry your mat."
11 But he replied, "He who healed me told me to 'Pick up
your mat and walk.'"
12 They asked him, "Who told you to 'Pick up your mat
and walk'?
13 But he who was healed did not know who it was; for
Jesus had slipped away since there was a crowd in that place.
14 Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to
him, "Look, you have been healed, sin no more, lest a
worse thing happen to you."
15 The man went away, and told the Jews that it was
Jesus who had cured him.

16 Because of this the Jews started harassing Jesus,
because he did these things on the Sabbath.
17 But Jesus defended himself to them, "My Father is working
until now, so I am working too."
18 Because of this the Jews sought all the more to kill him,
because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also claimed
that God was his own Father, making himself equal with God.
19 So Jesus answered them, "I tell you the truth, the
Son can do nothing by himself, but what he sees the Father
doing, for whatever things he does, these the Son does too.
20 For the Father loves the Son, and shows him everything
that he himself does. Greater works than these the
Father will show him, so that you may be astonished.
21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life,
even so the Son also gives life to whomever he wants to.
22 For the Father does not judge anyone, but he has given
all judgment to the Son,
23 that everyone may honor the Son, even as they honor the
Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor
the Father who sent him.
24 I tell you the truth, the one who hears my word, and
believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and will not
be condemned, but has passed from death into life.
25 I tell you the truth, the hour is coming, and now is,
when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and
those who hear will live.
26 For just as the Father has life in himself, so he has
also given the Son to have life in himself.
27 Also he has given him authority to execute judgment,
because he is the Son of Man.
28 Do not be surprised by this, for the hour is coming
in which everyone who is in the tombs will hear his voice
29 and will come out, those who have done good, to the
resurrection of life, and those who have done evil,
to the resurrection of condemnation.
30 By myself I can do nothing. Just as I hear, I judge,
and my judgment is fair; because I do not seek my own will,
but the will of him who sent me.

31 If I bear witness about myself, my witness is not true.
32 It is another who testifies about me; and I know that
the testimony which he gives about me is true.
33 You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.
34 But I do not accept human testimony, yet I say these
things so that you may be saved.
35 He was a lamp that burned and shined; and you were willing
to rejoice for a while in his light.
36 But the testimony I have is greater than John's; for
the works which the Father has given me to accomplish,
the very works that I am doing, testify about me that the
Father has sent me.
37 The Father who sent me has testified concerning me.
You have never ever heard his voice or seen his form,
38 nor do you have his word abiding in you, because you
do not believe the one whom he has sent.

39 Search the Scriptures, because you think that in them
you have eternal life; yet it is these that testify
about me.
40 But you are unwilling to come to me that you may
have life.
41 I do not accept glory from people.
42 But I know that you do not have the love of God in
you.
43 I have come in my Father's name and you have not
accepted me. If someone else comes in his own name,
you will receive that one.
44 How can you believe since you welcome praise from
each other, but you don't seek the praise that comes
from God alone?
45 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father;
there is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you
have set your hope.
46 For if you had believed Moses, you would believe me;
for he wrote about me.
47 But if you do not believe his writings, how will you
believe my words?"

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