Gospel According To John

Gospel According to John (MLV)

John 5)

^5:1 A feast of the Jews was after these things; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.^5:2 Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate there is a pool, named in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches.^5:3 A crowd of those who were sick lay in these, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.^5:4 For* an angel of the Lord went down from time to time in the pool and disturbs the water: then he who enters in first after the disturbance of the waters became healthy, from whatever disease he was held by.^5:5 And a certain man was there, who had been thirty eight years in his sickness.^5:6 When Jesus saw him lying and knew that he had already been like this a long time, he says to him, Do you wish to become healthy?

^5:7 The sick man answered him, Lord, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is disturbed. But while I am coming, another goes down before me.

^5:8 Jesus says to him, Arise, take up your bed and walk.^5:9 And immediately the man became healthy and took up his bed and walked.

Now it was the Sabbath on that day.^5:10 So the Jews said to him who was healed, It is the Sabbath and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed.

^5:11 But he answered them, He who made me healthy, that man said to me, Take up your bed and walk.

^5:12 They asked him, Who is the man who said to you, Take up your bed and walk?^5:13 But he who was healed did not know who it was; for* Jesus had slipped out of the crowd being in that place.

^5:14 After these things, Jesus finds him in the temple and said to him, Behold, you have become healthy: sin no more, lest a worse thing happens to you*.^5:15 The man went away and reported to the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him healthy.^5:16 And because of this the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did these things on the Sabbath.

^5:17 But Jesus answered them, My Father works even until now and I work.^5:18 Because of this, then the Jews sought even more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

^5:19 Jesus therefore answered and said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you*, The Son can do nothing from himself, unless he sees what the Father is doing: for* whatever things he does, the Son does these things similarly also.^5:20 For* the Father loves the Son and shows him all things that himself does and greater works than these he will show him, that* you* may marvel.^5:21 For* just-as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he wills.^5:22 For* the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son;^5:23 that all may honor the Son, just-as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son, does not honor the Father who sent him.^5:24 Truly, truly, I say to you*, He who hears my word and believes in him who sent me, has eternal life and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.^5:25 Truly, truly, I say to you*, The hour is coming and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and they who hear will live.^5:26 For* as the Father has life in himself, even so gave he to the Son also to have life in himself:^5:27 and he gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man.^5:28 Do not marvel at this: because the hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice,^5:29 and will come forth; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.

^5:30 I am able to do nothing of myself: as I hear, I judge and my judgment is righteous; because I do not seek my own will, but the will of him who sent me.^5:31 If I testify concerning myself, my witness is not true.^5:32 It is another who testifies concerning me; and I know that the witness which he witnesses concerning me is true.^5:33 You* have sent to John and he has testified to the truth.^5:34 But the witness which I receive is not from man: but I say these things, that you* may be saved.^5:35 He was the lamp that was burning and shining; and you* were willing to be glad for a season in his light.^5:36 But the witness which I have is greater than John's; for* the works which the Father has given me to accomplish, the same works which I do, testify concerning me, that the Father has sent me.^5:37 And the Father who sent me, he has testified concerning me. You* have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.^5:38 And you* do not have his word abiding in you*: because whom he sent, him you* do not believe.^5:39 You* search the scriptures, because you* think that in them you* have eternal life; and these are those which testify concerning me;^5:40 and you* will not come to me, that you* may have life.^5:41 I do not receive glory from men.^5:42 But I know you*, that you* do not have the love* of God in yourselves.^5:43 I have come in my Father's name and you* do not receive me: if another will come in his own name, you* will receive him.^5:44 How can you* believe, who receive glory of one another and the glory that comes from the only God, you* do not seek?^5:45 Do not think that I will accuse you* to the Father: there is one who is accusing you*, even Moses, on whom you* have set your* hope.^5:46 For* if you* believed Moses, you* would believe me; for* he wrote about me.^5:47 But if you* do not believe his writings, how shall you* believe my words?