John 5:1-47 MEV

[1] After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. [2] Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, which in Hebrew is called Bethesda, having five porches. [3] In these lay a great crowd of invalids, blind, lame, and paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water. [4] For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water. After the stirring of the water, whoever stepped in first was healed of whatever disease he had. [5] A certain man was there who had an illness for thirty-eight years. [6] When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been in that condition now a long time, He said to him, "Do you want to be healed?" [7] The sick man answered Him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred. But while I am coming, another steps down before me." [8] Jesus said to him, "Rise, take up your bed and walk." [9] Immediately the man was healed, took up his bed, and walked. That day was the Sabbath. [10] The Jews therefore said to him who was cured, "It is the Sabbath day. It is not lawful for you to carry your bed." [11] He answered them, "He who healed me said to me, 'Take up your bed and walk.' " [12] So they asked him, "Who is the Man who said to you, 'Take up your bed and walk'?" [13] Now the man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in that place. [14] Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "See, you have become whole. Sin no more lest something worse happens to you." [15] The man departed and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him. [16] So the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath day. [17] Jesus answered them, "My Father is working still, and I am working." [18] So the Jews sought even more to kill Him, because He not only had broken the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God. [19] Then Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do. For whatever He does, likewise the Son does. [20] For the Father loves the Son and shows Him all things that He Himself does. And He will show Him greater works than these so that you may marvel. [21] For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom He will. [22] The Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son, [23] that all men should honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him. [24] "Truly, truly I say to you, whoever hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has eternal life and shall not come into condemnation, but has passed from death into life. [25] Truly, truly I say to you, the hour is coming, and is now here, 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 given to the Son to have life in Himself, [27] and has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man. [28] "Do not marvel at this. For the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice [29] and come out-those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment. [30] I can do nothing of Myself. As I hear, I judge. My judgment is just, because I seek not My own will, but the will of the Father who sent Me. [31] "If I bear witness of Myself, My testimony is not true. [32] There is another who bears witness of Me, and I know that the testimony which He bears of Me is true. [33] "You sent to John, and he bore witness of the truth. [34] I do not receive testimony from man, but I say these things that you may be saved. [35] He was a burning and a shining lamp, and you were willing for a season to rejoice in his light. [36] "I have greater testimony than that of John. The works which the Father has given Me to finish, the very works that I do, bear witness of Me, that the Father has sent Me. [37] The Father Himself, who has sent Me, has borne witness of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form. [38] You do not have His word abiding in you, for you do not believe the One He has sent. [39] You search the Scriptures, because you think in them you have eternal life. These are they who bear witness of Me. [40] Yet you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life. [41] "I do not receive honor from men. [42] But I know you, that you do not have the love of God in you. [43] I have come in My Father's name, but you do not receive Me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him. [44] How can you believe, who receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God? [45] "Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you-Moses, in whom you trust. [46] For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote of Me. [47] But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?"