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5:1 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 5:2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Hebrew called Beth-za'tha, which has five porticoes. 5:3 In these lay a multitude of invalids, blind, lame, paralyzed. 5:4 5:5 One man was there, who had been ill for thirty-eight years. 5:6 When Jesus saw him and knew that he had been lying there a long time, he said to him, 'Do you want to be healed?' 5:7 The sick man answered him, 'Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is troubled, and while I am going another steps down before me.' 5:8 Jesus said to him, 'Rise, take up your pallet, and walk.' 5:9 And at once the man was healed, and he took up his pallet and walked. Now that day was the sabbath. 5:10 So the Jews said to the man who was cured, 'It is the sabbath, it is not lawful for you to carry your pallet.' 5:11 But he answered them, 'The man who healed me said to me, Take up your pallet, and walk.'' 5:12 They asked him, 'Who is the man who said to you, Take up your pallet, and walk'?' 5:13 Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place. 5:14 Afterward, Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, 'See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse befall you.' 5:15 The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him. 5:16 And this was why the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did this on the sabbath. 5:17 But Jesus answered them, 'My Father is working still, and I am working.' 5:18 This was why the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath but also called God his Father, making himself equal with God. 5:19 Jesus said to them, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing;for whatever he does, that the Son does likewise. 5:20 For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all that he himself is doing;and greater works than these will he show him, that you may marvel. 5:21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will. 5:22 The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son, 5:23 that all may honor the Son, even 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 him who sent me, has eternal life;he does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to 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 those who hear will live. 5:26 For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself, 5:27 and has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of man. 5:28 Do not marvel at this;for the hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice 5:29 and 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 can do nothing on my own authority;as I hear, I judge;and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me. 5:31 If I bear witness to myself, my testimony is not true; 5:32 there is another who bears witness to me, and I know that the testimony which he bears to me is true. 5:33 You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth. 5:34 Not that the testimony which I receive is from man;but I say this that you may be saved. 5:35 He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. 5:36 But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John;for the works which the Father has granted me to accomplish, these very works which I am doing, bear me witness that the Father has sent me. 5:37 And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness to me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen; 5:38 and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believehim whom he has sent. 5:39 You search the scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life;and it is they that bear witness to me; 5:40 yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life. 5:41 I do not receive glory from men. 5:42 But I know that you have not the love of God within you. 5:43 I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me;if another comes in his own name, him you will receive. 5:44 How can you believe, who receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God? 5:45 Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father;it is Moses who accuses you, on whom you set your hope. 5:46 If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote of me. 5:47 But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?'