Verse 4
John 5:4
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One man who was there had been sick for thirty-eight years. Yashua (Jesus) looked at him, knowing he had been lying there for a long time, and asked him,
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Chapter 5 Context
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After this there was a Jewish festival, so Yashua (Jesus) went to Jerusalem.
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Now near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem is a pool called Bethzatha in Hebrew, with five porches beside...
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Crowds of sick people were lying in these porches—those who were blind, lame, or paralyzed.
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One man who was there had been sick for thirty-eight years. Yashua (Jesus) looked at him, knowing he...
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“Do you want to be healed?”
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“Sir,” the sick man answered, “I don't have anyone to help me get into the pool when the water is st...
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“Stand up, pick up your mat, and start walking!” Yashua (Jesus) told him.
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Immediately the man was healed. He picked up his mat and started walking. Now the day that this happ...
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So the Jews said to the man who'd been healed, “This is the Sabbath! It's against the law to carry a...
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“The man who healed me told me to pick up my mat and start walking,” he replied.
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“Who's this person who told you to carry your mat and walk?” they asked.
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However, the man who'd been healed didn't know who it was, for Yashua (Jesus) had slipped away into...
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Later on Yashua (Jesus) found the man in the Temple, and told him, “Look, now you've been healed. So...
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But Yashua (Jesus) told them, “My Father is still working, and so am I.”
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This was why the Jews tried even harder to kill him, for not only did he break the Sabbath but also...
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So Yashua (Jesus) explained to them, “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he ca...
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For the Father loves the Son, and reveals to him everything he does; and the Father will show to him...
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For just as the Father gives life to those he resurrects from the dead, in the same way the Son also...
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The Father judges no one. He has given to the Son all the authority to judge,
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so that everyone may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who doesn't honor the Son d...
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I tell you the truth: those who follow what I say and trust the one who sent me have eternal life. T...
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I tell you the truth: The time is coming—in fact it's here already—when the dead will hear the voice...
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Just as the Father has life-giving power in himself, so has he given the Son the same life-giving po...
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The Father also granted the authority for judgment to him, for he is the Son of man.
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Don't be surprised at this, for the time is coming when all those in the grave will hear his voice
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and will rise again: those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done e...
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I can do nothing by myself. I judge based on what I'm told, and my decision is right, for I'm not do...
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If I were to make claims about myself, such claims wouldn't be valid;
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but someone else gives evidence about me, and I know what he says about me is true.
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You asked John about me, and he told the truth,
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but I don't need any human endorsement. I'm explaining this to you so you can be saved.
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John was like a brightly-burning light, and you were willing to enjoy his light for a while.
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But the evidence I'm giving is greater than John's. For I am doing the work that the Father gave me...
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and this is the proof that the Father sent me. The Father who sent me, he himself speaks on my behal...
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and you don't accept what he says, because you don't trust in the one he sent.
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You search the Scriptures because you think that through them you'll gain eternal life. But the evid...
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—I know you, and that you don't have God (Elohim)'s love in you.
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For I've come to represent my Father, and you won't accept me; but if someone comes representing the...
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How can you trust in me when you look for praise from one another and yet you don't look for praise...
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But don't think I will be making accusations about you to the Father. It's Moses who is accusing you...
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For if you really trusted Moses you would trust in me, because he wrote about me.
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But since you don't trust what he said, why would you trust what I say?”
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