King James Version

1 After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 In Jerusalem, by the Sheep Gate, there is a pool called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porticoes. 3 In these lay a multitude of the weak, the blind, the lame, the withered. 4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. 5 And there was a certain man there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. 6 Seeing him lying there, and knowing that he had already been there a long time, Jesus said to him, "Do you want to be healed?" 7 The sick man answered him, "Lord, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; and while I am going, another steps down before me." 8 Jesus said to him, "Rise, take up your bed and walk." 9 And immediately the man became healthy and took up his bed and walked. And it was Sabbath on that day. 10 Therefore, the Jews said to the healed man: It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry your bed. 11 But he answered them, "He who made me well said to me, 'Take up your bed and walk.'" 12 They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take up your bed and walk'?" 13 But the healed man did not know who he was, for Jesus had slipped away while a crowd was in the place. 14 After this, Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, "See, you have been made well; do not sin anymore, so that nothing worse may happen to you." 15 The man went away and reported to the Jews that Jesus is the one who made him well. 16 And for this reason, the Jews were persecuting Jesus because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. 17 But he answered them, "My Father is working until now, and I am working." 18 Therefore, the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was his own Father, making himself equal to God. 19 Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly I say to you, the Son can do nothing on his own unless he sees the Father doing something; for whatever that one does, the Son does likewise." 20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing, and greater works than these he will show him, so that you may marvel. 21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he wills. 22 For the Father does not judge anyone, but has given all judgment to the Son. 23 That all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. 24 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. 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. 26 Just as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in himself. 27 And he gave him authority to execute judgment because he is the Son of Man. 28 Do not marvel at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in the graves will hear his voice. 29 And those who have done good will come out to the resurrection of life, while those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment. 30 I am not able to do anything from myself; as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous because I do not seek my own will but the will of the one who sent me. 31 If I bear witness about myself, my testimony is not true. 32 There is another who bears witness about me, and I know that the testimony he bears about me is true. 33 You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth. 34 But I do not receive testimony from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved. 35 That one was the lamp that was burning and shining, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. 36 But I have a testimony greater than John's; for the works which the Father has given me to complete, these very works that I do, bear witness about me that the Father has sent me. 37 And the Father who sent me, he has borne witness about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time nor seen his form. 38 And you do not have his word remaining in you, because you do not believe in the one whom he sent. 39 Search the Scriptures, for you think that in them you have eternal life; and they are the ones that testify about me. 40 And you do not want to come to me so that you may have life. 41 I do not receive glory from men. 42 But I know you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves. 43 I have come in the name of my Father, and you do not receive me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive. 44 How can you believe, receiving glory from one another, and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God? 45 Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; your accuser is Moses, in whom you have hoped. 46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. 47 If you do not believe the writings of him, how will you believe my words?