John

¹After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ²Now in Jerusalem, by the sheep gate, there is a pool with five porches called in Hebrew “Bethesda.”^{1076 3}Under these lay a great multitude of people who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, <waiting for the moving of the water.¹⁰⁷⁷

⁴For an angel went down at certain times into the pool, and stirred up the water. Then whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was made whole of whatever disease he had>.

⁵A certain man was there, who had his illness for thirty-eight years. ⁶When Jesus saw him lying there and perceived¹⁰⁷⁸ that the man had been sick for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to be made well?”

⁷The sick man replied, “Sir,¹⁰⁷⁹ I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I am coming, someone else steps down before me!”

⁸Jesus said to him, “Arise, take up your mat, and walk!”

⁹Immediately, the man was made well; he took up his mat and began to walk.

Now it was the Sabbath on that day. ¹⁰And so, the Jews said to the man who had been cured, “It is the Sabbath! It is not lawful for you to carry the mat!”

¹¹The man answered them, “He who made me well, that one said to me, ‘Take up your mat, and walk.’”

¹²Then they asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your mat, and walk?’”

¹³But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn in the crowd that was there.

¹⁴Later, Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “Behold, you have become well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse may happen to you!”

The Jews begin to persecute Jesus

¹⁵The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. ¹⁶For this reason, the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill him¹⁰⁸⁰ because he did these things on the Sabbath. ¹⁷But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, and I am also working.” ¹⁸Because of this, the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, not only because he broke the Sabbath, but also because he called God his own Father,¹⁰⁸¹ making himself equal with God.

The Father and the Son

¹⁹Accordingly, Jesus answered them, “Amen, amen, I tell you; the Son can do nothing of himself, but [only] what he sees the Father doing. Indeed, whatever the Father¹⁰⁸² does, the Son also does likewise. ²⁰For the Father has deep affection¹⁰⁸³ for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. And the Father¹⁰⁸⁴ will show him greater works than these, so that you may be astonished. ²¹For [just] as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, likewise the Son also gives life to whom he desires. ²²As it is, the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son, ²³so that all may honor the Son even as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him!

²⁴Amen, amen, I tell you; the one who hears my word and believes in him who sent me has eternal life and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. ²⁵Amen, amen, I tell you; the hour is coming and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will come to life. ²⁶For as the Father has life in himself, so has he given to the Son to have life in himself. ²⁷He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is Son of Man.^{1085 28}Do not be astonished at this, because the hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice ²⁹and come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment. ³⁰I can do nothing of myself. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me.”

Witnesses to Jesus—Belief and unbelief

³¹”If I bear witness about myself, my testimony is not valid. ³²There is another who bears witness about me, and I know that the testimony by which he bears witness about me is true. ³³You have sent [messengers] to John, and he has testified to the truth. ³⁴However, the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things so that you may be saved. ³⁵John¹⁰⁸⁶ was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. ³⁶But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, because the works which the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I do, they bear witness about me, that the Father has sent me. ³⁷The Father himself, who sent me, he has testified about me. You have never heard his voice at any time, and you have never seen his outward appearance.^{1087 38}You do not have his word living in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent.

³⁹Search the Scriptures¹⁰⁸⁸, for you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness to me. ⁴⁰Yet you will not come to me to have life. ⁴¹I do not receive glory from men, ⁴²but I know you, that you do not have God’s love in yourselves. ⁴³I have come in my Father’s Name, and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him! ⁴⁴How can you believe, since you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?¹⁰⁸⁹

⁴⁵Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is in fact Moses, on whom you have set your hope. ⁴⁶For if you believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me. ⁴⁷But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”

The multiplication of the five loaves: the fourth sign

1076. CT reads “Bethzatha” instead of “Bethesda”
1077. CT omits “waiting for the moving of the water” as well as verse 4
1078. Or “knew/learned/realized”
1079. Greek ku,rie (can also mean “Lord”)
1080. CT omits “and sought to kill him”
1081. Compare Wisdom 2:16
1082. Greek “he”
1083. Or “loves” (Greek filei/)
1084. Greek “he”
1085. The Greek could be translated “a Son of Man” or “the Son of Man.”
1086. Greek “he”
1087. Greek ei=doj not morfh/|
1088. Or “You search the Scriptures.” The Fathers consistently interpreted this verse in the imperative (“Search the Scriptures”), not the indicative (“You search the Scriptures”).
1089. Greek tou/ mo,nou qeou/