The
Healing at
the Pool
1
Some time
later,
Jesus went
up to
Jerusalem
for one of
the Jewish
festivals.
2 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.
3>4 Here a great
number of
disabled
people
used to
lie—the
blind, the
lame, the
paralyzed.
5 One who
was there
had been
an invalid
for
thirty-eight
years.
6 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?”
7 “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.”
8 Then
Jesus said
to him,
“Get up!
Pick up
your mat
and walk.”
9 At once
the man
was cured;
he picked
up his mat
and
walked.
The day on
which this
took place
was a
Sabbath,
10 and so
the Jewish
leaders
said to
the man
who had
been
healed,
“It is the
Sabbath;
the law
forbids
you to
carry your
mat.”
11 But he
replied,
“The man
who made
me well
said to
me, ‘Pick
up your
mat and
walk.’ ”
12 So they
asked him,
“Who is
this
fellow who
told you
to pick it
up and
walk?”
13 The man
who was
healed had
no idea
who it
was, for
Jesus had
slipped
away into
the crowd
that was
there.
14 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.”
15 The
man went
away and
told the
Jewish
leaders
that it
was Jesus
who had
made him
well.
The
Authority
of the Son
16 So,
because
Jesus was
doing
these
things on
the
Sabbath,
the Jewish
leaders
began to
persecute
him.
17 In
his
defense
Jesus said
to them,
“My Father
is always
at his
work to
this very
day, and I
too am
working.”
18 For
this
reason
they tried
all the
more to
kill him;
not only
was he
breaking
the
Sabbath,
but he was
even
calling
God his
own
Father,
making
himself
equal with
God.
19 Jesus
gave them
this
answer:
“Very
truly I
tell you,
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.
20 For
the Father
loves the
Son and
shows him
all he
does. Yes,
and he
will show
him even
greater
works than
these, so
that you
will be
amazed.
21 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.
22 Moreover,
the Father
judges no
one, but
has
entrusted
all
judgment
to the
Son,
23 that
all may
honor the
Son just
as they
honor the
Father.
Whoever
does not
honor the
Son does
not honor
the
Father,
who sent
him.
24 “Very
truly I
tell you,
whoever
hears my
word and
believes
him who
sent me
has
eternal
life and
will not
be judged
but has
crossed
over from
death to
life.
25 Very
truly I
tell you,
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.
26 For
as the
Father has
life in
himself,
so he has
granted
the Son
also to
have life
in
himself.
27 And he
has given
him
authority
to judge
because he
is the Son
of Man.
28 “Do not
be amazed
at this,
for a time
is coming
when all
who are in
their
graves
will hear
his voice
29 and
come
out—those
who have
done what
is good
will rise
to live,
and those
who have
done what
is evil
will rise
to be
condemned.
30 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.
Testimonies
About
Jesus
31 “If I
testify
about
myself, my
testimony
is not
true.
32 There
is another
who
testifies
in my
favor, and
I know
that his
testimony
about me
is true.
33 “You
have sent
to John
and he has
testified
to the
truth.
34 Not
that I
accept
human
testimony;
but I
mention it
that you
may be
saved.
35 John
was a lamp
that
burned and
gave
light, and
you chose
for a time
to enjoy
his light.
36 “I have
testimony
weightier
than that
of John.
For the
works that
the Father
has given
me to
finish—the
very works
that I am
doing—testify
that the
Father has
sent me.
37 And the
Father who
sent me
has
himself
testified
concerning
me. You
have never
heard his
voice nor
seen his
form,
38 nor
does his
word dwell
in you,
for you do
not
believe
the one he
sent.
39 You
study the
Scriptures
diligently
because
you think
that in
them you
have
eternal
life.
These are
the very
Scriptures
that
testify
about me,
40 yet you
refuse to
come to me
to have
life.
41 “I do
not accept
glory from
human
beings,
42 but I
know you.
I know
that you
do not
have the
love of
God in
your
hearts.
43 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.
44 How
can you
believe
since you
accept
glory from
one
another
but do not
seek the
glory that
comes from
the only
God?
45 “But do
not think
I will
accuse you
before the
Father.
Your
accuser is
Moses, on
whom your
hopes are
set.
46 If
you
believed
Moses, you
would
believe
me, for he
wrote
about me.
47 But
since you
do not
believe
what he
wrote, how
are you
going to
believe
what I
say?”