¹ AFTER these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

² Now there is at Jerusalem near the sheep-market a pool, called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porticos.

³ In these lay a vast multitude of infirm persons, blind, lame, withered, waiting the motion of the water.

⁴ For occasionally an angel descended into the pool, and put the water into commotion: he therefore who first stepped in after the commotion of the water became well, under whatever complaint he had laboured.

⁵ And there was a certain man there, who had a complaint of thirty years standing.

⁶ Jesus seeing him laid there, and knowing that he had been so for a long while, saith to him, Wilt thou be made sound?

⁷ The infirm man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is disturbed, to cast me into the pool: but when I am coming, another goeth down before me.

⁸ Jesus saith to him, Arise, take up thy bed, and walk.

⁹ And instantly the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked away: and that day was the sabbath.

¹⁰ The Jews therefore said to him that was cured, It is the sabbath: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.

¹¹ He answered them, He that made me whole, the same person said to me, Take up thy bed, and walk.

¹² Then they asked him, Who is the man that said to thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?

¹³ Now he that was cured knew not who he was: for Jesus had slipped away, a crowd being on the spot.

¹⁴ After these things Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Take care; thou art made whole: sin no more, lest something worse befall thee.

¹⁵ The man went, and informed the Jews, that it was Jesus who had made him whole.

¹⁶ And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he had done these things on the sabbath-day.

¹⁷ Then Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.

¹⁸ Therefore sought they the more to kill him, because he had not only broken the sabbath, but called God his own Father, setting himself on an equality with God.

¹⁹ Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing by himself, except what he hath seen the Father do: for whatsoever things he doeth, the same and in the same manner doth the Son.

²⁰ For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things which he himself doeth: and greater works than these will he shew him, that ye may wonder.

²¹ For as the Father raiseth the dead, and quickeneth them; so also doth the Son quicken whom he pleases.

²² For the Father never judgeth any man, but hath committed all judgment to the Son:

²³ in order that all may honour the Son, just as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son, doth not honour the Father who sent him.

²⁴ Verily, verily, I say unto you, That he that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment; but is passed from death into life.

²⁵ Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, yea, it is now, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.

²⁶ For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son also to have life in himself;

²⁷ and hath given him authority also to execute judgment, because he is the Son of man.

²⁸ Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in which all who are in the graves shall hear his voice,

²⁹ and they shall come forth; they who have done good actions to the resurrection of life; and they who have been guilty of foul practices, to the resurrection of damnation.

³⁰ I am not able to perform any thing by myself: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; for I seek not my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

³¹ If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.

³² There is another who beareth witness of me, and I know that his witness is true which he witnesseth concerning me.

³³ Ye sent to John, and he bore testimony to the truth.

³⁴ But I receive not testimony from man: but I speak these things, that ye may believe.

³⁵ He was a lamp glowing and luminous: and ye were pleased for a time to exult in his light.

³⁶ But I have a testimony greater than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me that I should fulfil them, these very works which I am doing, they bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.

³⁷ And the Father who sent me, himself hath borne witness concerning me. Ye have neither at any time heard his voice, nor seen his form.

³⁸ And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.

³⁹ Search the scriptures; for ye suppose in them ye have eternal life: and these are they which testify of me.

⁴⁰ And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.

⁴¹ I receive not glory from men.

⁴² But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.

⁴³ I have come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another come in his own name, him ye will receive.

⁴⁴ How can ye believe, who receiving honour one from another, seek not the honour which cometh from God alone?

⁴⁵ Do not suppose that I shall accuse you to my Father: there is one who is accusing you, even Moses, on whom ye place your hope.

⁴⁶ For if ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for of me did he write.

⁴⁷ But if ye believe not his writings, how will ye believe my words?