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