1 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 In Jerusalem, by the Sheep Gate, there is a pool called Bethesda in Hebrew, with five colonnades. 3 In these lay a crowd of sick people—blind, lame, and with withered limbs. 4 [For an angel would come down into the pool from time to time and stir the water. The first to enter after the water was stirred would be made well, whatever disease afflicted him.] 5 A man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been that way a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be made well?” 7 The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get there, someone else goes down before me.” 8 Jesus said to him, “Get up, pick up your mat, and walk.” 9 At once the man was made well, picked up his mat, and began to walk. Now that day was a Sabbath. 10 So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat.” 11 But he answered them, “The one who made me well told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’ ” 12 They asked him, “Who is the man who told you, ‘Pick it up and walk’?” 13 But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd there. 14 Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “Look, you have been made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you.” 15 The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. 16 For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. 17 But he answered them, “My Father is still working, and I am working too.” 18 For this reason the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he was not only breaking the Sabbath but also calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God. 19 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise. 20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he himself does. And he will show him greater works than these, so that you may marvel. 21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so the Son gives life to whomever he wishes. 22 The Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son, 23 so 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 Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. 25 Truly, truly, I tell you, an 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 just as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in himself. 27 And he has given him authority to carry out judgment, because he is the Son of Man. 28 Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice 29 and come out—those who have done good to a resurrection of life, and those who have practiced evil to a resurrection of judgment. 30 I can do nothing on my own. I judge as I hear, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me. 31 If I bear witness about myself, my testimony is not true. 32 There is another who bears witness about me, and I know that the testimony he gives about me is true. 33 You sent messengers to John, and he has borne witness to the truth. 34 But I do not receive testimony from a human being; I say these things so that you may be saved. 35 He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice in his light for a time. 36 But the testimony I have is greater than John’s. For the works the Father has given me to finish—the very works I am doing—bear witness about me that the Father has sent me. 37 And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. You have never heard his voice or seen his form, 38 and you do not have his word abiding in you, because you do not believe the one he sent. 39 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life, and these are the very Scriptures that bear witness about me. 40 Yet you are unwilling to come to me to have life. 41 I do not receive glory from people. 42 But I know you: you do not have the love of God in yourselves. 43 I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him. 44 How can you believe when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God? 45 Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, in whom you have set your hope. 46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. 47 But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”