[1] After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to
Jerusalem. [2] Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in
Hebrew called Beth-za'tha, which has five porticoes. [3] In these lay a
multitude of invalids, blind, lame, paralyzed. [4] One man was there, who
had been ill for thirty-eight years. [5] 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?" [6] 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." [7] Jesus said to him, "Rise, take up your pallet, and
walk." [8] And at once the man was healed, and he took up his pallet and
walked.  Now that day was the sabbath. [9] So the Jews said to the man who
was cured, "It is the sabbath, it is not lawful for you to carry your
pallet." [10] But he answered them, "The man who healed me said to me,
`Take up your pallet, and walk.'" [11] They asked him, "Who is the man who
said to you, `Take up your pallet, and walk'?" [12] 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been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was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. [13] Afterward, Jesus found him in the temple, and
said to him, "See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse befall
you." [14] The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had
healed him. [15] And this was why the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did
this on the sabbath. [16] But Jesus answered them, "My Father is working
still, and I am working." [17] 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. [18] 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. [19] 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. [20] For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so
also the Son gives life to whom he will. [21] The Father judges no one, but
has given all judgment to the Son, [22] 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. [23] 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. [24] "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. [25] For as the Father has
life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself,
[26] and has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son
of man. [27] Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming when all who are
in the tombs will hear his voice [28] and come forth, those who have done
good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the
resurrection of judgment. [29] "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. [30] If I bear witness to myself, my testimony
is not true; [31] there is another who bears witness to me, and I know that
the testimony which he bears to me is true. [32] You sent to John, and he
has borne witness to the truth. [33] Not that the testimony which I receive
is from man; but I say this that you may be saved. [34] He was a burning
and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
[35] 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. [36] And the
Father who sent me has himself borne witness to me. His voice you have
never heard, his form you have never seen; [37] and you do not have his
word abiding in you, for you do not believe him whom he has sent. [38] You
search the scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal
life; and it is they that bear witness to me; [39] yet you refuse to come
to me that you may have life. [40] I do not receive glory from men. [41]
But I know that you have not the love of God within you. [42] 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. [43] How can you believe, who receive glory
from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
[44] Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; it is Moses who
accuses you, on whom you set your hope. [45] If you believed Moses, you
would believe me, for he wrote of me. [46] But if you do not believe his
writings, how will you believe my words?"