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Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews. |
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Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. |
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Here a great number of disabled people used to lie--the blind, the lame, the paralysed. |
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One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. |
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When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?" |
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"Sir," the invalid replied, "I have no-one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me." |
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Then Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk." |
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At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, |
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and so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat." |
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But he replied, "The man who made me well said to me,`Pick up your mat and walk.'" |
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So they asked him, "Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?" |
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The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there. |
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Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you." |
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The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. |
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So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews persecuted him. |
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Jesus said to them, "My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too, am working." |
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For this reason the Jews tried all the harder to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God. |
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Jesus gave them this answer: "I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. |
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For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, to your amazement he will show him even greater things than these. |
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For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it. |
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Moreover, the Father judges no-one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son, |
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that all may honour the Son just as they honour the Father. He who does not honour the Son does not honour the Father, who sent him. |
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"I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life. |
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I tell you the truth, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live. |
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For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in himself. |
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And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man. |
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"Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice |
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and come out--those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned. |
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By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me. |
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"If I testify about myself, my testimony is not valid. |
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There is another who testifies in my favour, and I know that his testimony about me is valid. |
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"You have sent to John and he has testified to the truth. |
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Not that I accept human testimony; but I mention it that you may be saved. |
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John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you chose for a time to enjoy his light. |
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"I have testimony weightier than that of John. For the very work that the Father has given me to finish, and which I am doing, testifies that the Father has sent me. |
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And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You have never heard his voice nor seen his form, |
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nor does his word dwell in you, for you do not believe the one he sent. |
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You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me, |
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yet you refuse to come to me to have life. |
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"I do not accept praise from men, |
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but I know you. I know that you do not have the love of God in your hearts. |
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I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him. |
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How can you believe if you accept praise from one another, yet make no effort to obtain the praise that comes from the only God? |
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"But do not think I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom your hopes are set. |
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If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. |
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But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?" |
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