John 5
1 After this, there was a Jewish festival so Jesus went to Jerusalem.
After these things, there was a Jewish festival, and Yeshua went up to Jerusalem.
2 Now near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem is a pool called Bethzatha in Hebrew, with five porches beside it.
Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, “Bethesda”, having five porches.
3 Crowds of sick people were lying in these porches—those who were blind, lame, or paralyzed.
In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralysed, waiting for the moving of the water;
for an angel went down at certain times into the pool and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had.
5 One man who was there had been sick for thirty-eight years. Jesus looked at him, knowing he had been lying there for long time, and asked him,
A certain man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.
6 “Do you want to be healed?”
When Yeshua saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to be made well?”
7 “Sir,” the sick man answered, “I don't have anyone to help me get into the pool when the water is stirred. While I'm trying to get there, someone always gets in before me.”
The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, another steps down before me.”
8 “Stand up, pick up your mat, and start walking!” Jesus told him.
Yeshua said to him, “Arise, take up your mat, and walk.”
9 Immediately the man was healed. He picked up his mat and started walking. Now the day that this happened was the Sabbath.
Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked. Now that day was a Sabbath.
10 So the Jews said to the man who'd been healed, “This is the Sabbath! It's against the law to carry a mat!”
So the Judeans said to him who was cured, “It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat.”
11 “The man who healed me told me to pick up my mat and start walking,” he replied.
He answered them, “He who made me well said to me, ‘Take up your mat and walk.’”
12 “Who's this person who told you to carry your mat and walk?” they asked.
Then they asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your mat and walk’?”
13 However, the man who'd been healed didn't know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the surrounding crowd.
But he who was healed didn’t know who it was, for Yeshua had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place.
14 Later on Jesus found the man in the Temple, and told him, “Look, now you've been healed. So stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.”
Afterward Yeshua found him in the temple and said to him, “Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you.”
15 The man went and told the Jews it was Jesus who had healed him.
The man went away, and told the Judeans that it was Yeshua who had made him well.
16 So the Jews started to harass Jesus because he was doing things on the Sabbath.
For this cause the Judeans persecuted Yeshua and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.
17 But Jesus told them, “My Father is still working, and so am I.”
But Yeshua answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.”
18 This was why the Jews tried even harder to kill him, for not only did he break the Sabbath but also called God his Father, making himself equal with God.
For this cause therefore the Judeans sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
19 Jesus explained to them, “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can only do what he sees the Father doing. Whatever the Father does the Son does as well.
Yeshua therefore answered them, “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.
20 For the Father loves the Son, and reveals to him everything he does; and the Father will show to him even more incredible things that will completely amaze you.
For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel.
21 For just as the Father gives life to those he resurrects from the dead, in the same way the Son also gives life to those that he wants.
For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.
22 The Father judges no one. He has given to the Son all the authority to judge,
For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgement to the Son,
23 so that everyone may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who doesn't honor the Son doesn't honor the Father who sent him.
that all may honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He who doesn’t honour the Son doesn’t honour the Father who sent him.
24 I tell you the truth: those who follow what I say and trust the one who sent me have eternal life. They won't be condemned, but have gone from death to life. (aiōnios g166)
“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgement, but has passed out of death into life. (aiōnios g166)
25 I tell you the truth: The time is coming—in fact it's here already—when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live!
Most certainly I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live.
26 Just as the Father has life-giving power in himself, so has he given the Son the same life-giving power in himself.
For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.
27 The Father also granted the authority for judgment to him, for he is the Son of man.
He also gave him authority to execute judgement, because he is a son of man.
28 Don't be surprised at this, for the time is coming when all those in the grave will hear his voice
Don’t marvel at this, for the hour comes in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice
29 and will rise again: those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of condemnation.
and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgement.
30 I can do nothing by myself. I judge based on what I'm told, and my decision is right, for I'm not doing my own will but the will of the one who sent me.
I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and my judgement is righteous, because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.
31 If I were to make claims about myself, such claims wouldn't be valid;
“If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid.
32 but someone else gives evidence about me, and I know what he says about me is true.
It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true.
33 You asked John about me, and he told the truth,
You have sent to Yochanan, and he has testified to the truth.
34 but I don't need any human endorsement. I'm explaining this to you so you can be saved.
But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved.
35 John was like a brightly-burning light, and you were willing to enjoy his light for a while.
He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
36 But the evidence I'm giving is greater than John's. For I am doing the work that the Father gave me to do,
But the testimony which I have is greater than that of Yochanan; for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.
37 and this is the proof that the Father sent me. The Father who sent me, he himself speaks on my behalf. You've never heard his voice, and you've never seen what he looks like,
The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.
38 and you don't accept what he says, because you don't trust in the one he sent.
You don’t have his word living in you, because you don’t believe him whom he sent.
39 You search the Scriptures because you think that through them you'll gain eternal life. But the evidence they give is in support of me! (aiōnios g166)
“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me. (aiōnios g166)
40 And yet you don't want to come to me so that you might live.
Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.
41 I'm not looking for human approval
I don’t receive glory from men.
42 —I know you, and that you don't have God's love in you.
But I know you, that you don’t have God’s love in yourselves.
43 For I've come to represent my Father, and you won't accept me; but if someone comes representing themselves, then you accept them!
I have come in my Father’s name, and you don’t receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
44 How can you trust in me when you look for praise from one another and yet you don't look for praise from the one true God?
How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?
45 But don't think I will be making accusations about you to the Father. It's Moses who is accusing you, the one in whom you place such confidence.
“Don’t think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.
46 For if you really trusted Moses you would trust in me, because he wrote about me.
For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.
47 But since you don't trust what he said, why would you trust what I say?”
But if you don’t believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”
