John 5
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After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
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Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep [gate] a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda,
having five porches.
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In these lay a multitude of them that were sick, blind, halt, withered, [waiting for
the moving of the water.]
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[for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool, and troubled
the water: whoever then first after the troubling of the waters stepped in was made
whole, with whatever disease he was holden.]
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And a certain man was there, who had been thirty and eight years in his infirmity.
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When Jesus saw him lying, and knew that he had been now a long time [in that case],
he says to him, Would you be made whole?
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The sick man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put
me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steps down before me.
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Jesus says to him, Arise, take up your bed, and walk.
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And straightway the man was made whole, and took up his bed and walked. Now it was
the sabbath on that day.
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So the Jews said to him whom was cured, It is the sabbath, and it is not lawful for
you to take up your bed.
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But he answered them, He who made me whole, the same said to me, Take up your bed,
and walk.
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They asked him, Who is the man that said to you, Take up [your bed], and walk?
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But he who was healed knew not who it was; for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a
multitude being in the place.
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Afterward Jesus finds him in the temple, and said to him, Behold, you are made whole:
sin no more, lest a worse thing befall you.
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The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him whole.
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And for this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath.
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But Jesus answered them, My Father works even until now, and I work.
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For this cause therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only
brake the sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
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Jesus therefore answered and said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, The Son can
do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing: for what things soever he
does, these the Son also does in like manner.
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For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all things that himself does: and greater
works than these will he show him, that you may marvel.
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For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives
life to whom he will.
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For neither does the Father judge any man, but he has given all judgment to the Son;
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that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who honors not the Son
honors not the Father that sent him.
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Truly, truly, I say to you, He who hears my word, and believes him whom sent me, has
eternal life, and comes not into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
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Truly, truly, I say to you, The hour comes, and now is, when the dead shall hear the
voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live.
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For as the Father has life in himself, even so gave he to the Son also to have life
in himself:
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and he gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man.
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Marvel not at this: for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs shall hear
his voice,
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and shall come forth; they that have done good, to the resurrection of life; and they
that have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.
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I can of myself do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is righteous; because
I seek not mine own will, but the will of him whom sent me.
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If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.
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It is another that bears witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesses
of me is true.
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You have sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth.
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But the witness which I receive is not from man: nevertheless I say these things,
that you may be saved.
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He was the lamp that burns and shines; and you were willing to rejoice for a season
in his light.
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But the witness which I have is greater than [that of] John; for the works which the
Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I do, bear witness of me, that
the Father has sent me.
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And the Father that sent me, he has borne witness of me. You have neither heard his
voice at any time, nor seen his form.
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And you have not his word abiding in you: for whom he sent, him you believe not.
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You search the scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and
these are they which bear witness of me;
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and you will not come to me, that you may have life.
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I receive not glory from men.
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But I know you, that you have not the love of God in yourselves.
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I am come in my Father`s name, and you receive me not: if another shall come in his
own name, him you will receive.
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How can you believe, who receive glory one of another, and the glory that [comes]
from the only God you seek not?
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Think not that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuses you, [even]
Moses, on whom you have set your hope.
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For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me.
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But if you believe not his writings, how shall you believe my words?