Thematic Bible




John 5:1 (show verse)

After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

John 5:2 (show verse)

Now in Jerusalem there is a bath beside the sheep-pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethzatha; it has five porticoes,

John 5:3 (show verse)

where a crowd of invalids used to lie, the blind, the lame, and folk with shrivelled limbs [waiting for the water to bubble.

John 5:4 (show verse)

For an angel used to descend from time to time into the bath, and disturb the water; whereupon the first person who stepped in after the water was disturbed was restored to health, no matter what disease he had been afflicted with].

John 5:5 (show verse)

Now one man was there, whose illness had lasted thirty-eight years.

John 5:6 (show verse)

Jesus saw him lying, and knowing he had been ill for a long while he said to him, "Do you want your health restored?"

John 5:7 (show verse)

The invalid replied, "Sir, I have nobody to put me into the bath, when the water is disturbed; and while I am getting down myself, someone else gets in before me."

John 5:8 (show verse)

Jesus said to him, "Get up, lift your mat, and walk."

John 5:9 (show verse)

And instantly the man got well, lifted his mat, and started to walk. Now it was the sabbath on that day.

John 5:10 (show verse)

So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "This is the sabbath, you have no right to be carrying your mat."

John 5:11 (show verse)

He replied, "But the man who healed me, he told me, 'Lift your mat and walk'."

John 5:12 (show verse)

They questioned him, "Who was it that told you, 'Lift it and walk'?"

John 5:13 (show verse)

Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for (owing to the crowd on the spot) Jesus had slipped away.

John 5:14 (show verse)

Later on Jesus met him in the temple, and said to him, "See, you are well and strong; commit no more sins, in case something worse befalls you."

John 5:15 (show verse)

Off went the man and told the Jews it was Jesus who had healed him.

John 5:16 (show verse)

And this was why the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did things like this on the sabbath.

John 5:17 (show verse)

The reply of Jesus was, "As my Father has continued working to this hour, so I work too."

John 5:18 (show verse)

But this only made the Jews more eager to kill him, because he not merely broke the sabbath but actually spoke of God as his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.

John 5:19 (show verse)

So Jesus made this answer to them: "Truly, truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, nothing but what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, the Son also does the same.

John 5:20 (show verse)

The Father loves the Son and shows him all that he is doing himself. He will show him still greater deeds than these, to make you wonder;

John 5:21 (show verse)

for as the Father raises the dead and makes them live, so the Son makes anyone live whom he chooses.

John 5:22 (show verse)

Indeed the Father passes judgment on no one; he has committed the judgment which determines life or death entirely to the Son,

John 5:23 (show verse)

that all men may honour the Son as they honour the Father. (He who does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent him.)

John 5:24 (show verse)

Truly, truly I tell you, he who listens to my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life; he will incur no sentence of judgment, he has already passed from death across to life.
Believers » Promises to » Eternal life
Bethesda » The pool of
Christ's » Verily, verily's of » How to obtain
Condemnation » No condemnation, for the righteous
Condemnation » Who is not condemned
Condemnation » Saints are delivered from, by Christ
death » Spiritual
Spiritual death » Deliverance from, is through Christ
Deathless » Conditions of receiving » Spiritual service
Eternal » Conditions of receiving » Spiritual service
Everlasting » Conditions of receiving » Spiritual service
God » Mighty in its influence » A blessing to those who reverence it
God's Promises » To believers » Eternal life
Hearing » Those that hear the lord
Justification before God » Under the gospel » Is by faith alone
Life » Spiritual
Life » Of the spirit spiritual » Secured through faith
Life » Spiritual » Secured through faith
Life » Conditions of receiving » Spiritual service
Eternal life » Conditions of receiving » Spiritual service
Eternal life » Given » To those who believe in God
No » Condemnation, for the righteous
Receiving » Who did not receive jesus Christ
Salvation » Conditions of
Scripture » The scriptures testifying of jesus Christ
Spiritual » Life » Secured through faith
The bible » Mighty in its influence » A blessing to those who reverence it
The word of God » Mighty in its influence » A blessing to those who reverence it
verily's of Christ » How to obtain
Witness » Who is a witness of the lord
Witness » God the father giving witness to jesus Christ
Witness » What testifies of jesus Christ
Word » Preached » A blessing to those who reverence it

John 5:25 (show verse)

Truly, truly I tell you, the time is coming, it has come already, when the dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen will live;

John 5:26 (show verse)

for as the Father has life in himself, so too he has granted the Son to have life in himself,

John 5:27 (show verse)

and also granted him authority to act as judge, since he is Son of man.

John 5:28 (show verse)

Do not wonder at this; for there is a time coming when all who are in the tombs will listen to his voice

John 5:29 (show verse)

and come out, the doers of good to be raised to life, ill-doers to be raised for the sentence of judgment.
Christ » Conqueror of death » Will call all men from death's domain
Conqueror over death » Will call all men from death's domain
Contempt » Some awaking to everlasting contempt
death » Christ conqueror of » Will call all men from death's domain
eternal Death » Is called » A resurrection to damnation
Eternal » Wicked words of Christ concerning » Other references of Christ to
Eternal life » Some awaking to everlasting life
Everlasting » Future state of the wicked words of Christ concerning » Other references of Christ to
Goodness » Good people
Justice » What is just
Eternal life » Saints » Shall rise unto
Power » Of Christ » Raising the dead
The power of Christ » Exhibited in » Raising the dead
Punishment » Eternal
Punishment » Future state of the wicked words of Christ concerning » Other references of Christ to
Punishment of the The Wicked » Future described as » Resurrection of damnation
Receiving » Who did not receive jesus Christ
Resurrection » Christ appears after his » Of all men
The Resurrection » Assumed and proved by our lord
The Resurrection » Saints in, shall » Rise to eternal life
The Resurrection » Of the wicked, shall be to » Damnation
Scripture » The scriptures testifying of jesus Christ
the future » Punishment future state of the wicked » Other references of Christ to
Witness » Who is a witness of the lord
Witness » God the father giving witness to jesus Christ
Witness » What testifies of jesus Christ
Words of Christ » Concerning the future state of the wicked » Other references of Christ to

John 5:30 (show verse)

I can do nothing of my own accord; I pass judgment on men as I am taught by God, and my judgment is just, because my aim is not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

John 5:31 (show verse)

If I testify to myself, then my evidence is not valid;

John 5:32 (show verse)

I have Another to bear testimony to me, and I know the evidence he bears for me is valid.

John 5:33 (show verse)

You sent to John, and he bore testimony to the truth

John 5:34 (show verse)

(though I accept no testimony from man ??I only speak of this testimony, that you may be saved);

John 5:35 (show verse)

he was a burning and a shining lamp, and you chose to rejoice for a while in his light.

John 5:36 (show verse)

But I possess a testimony greater than that of John, for the deeds which the Father has granted me to accomplish, the very deeds on which I am engaged, are my testimony that the Father has sent me.

John 5:37 (show verse)

The Father who sent me has also borne testimony to me himself; but his voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen,

John 5:38 (show verse)

his word you have not kept with you, because you do not believe him whom he sent.

John 5:39 (show verse)

You search the scriptures, imagining you possess eternal life in their pages ??and they do testify to me ??40 but you refuse to come to me for life.

John 5:40 (show verse)

John 5:41 (show verse)

I accept no credit from men,

John 5:42 (show verse)

but I know there is no love to God in you;

John 5:43 (show verse)

here am I, come in the name of my Father, and you will not accept me: let someone else come in his own name, and you will accept him!

John 5:44 (show verse)

How can you believe, you who accept credit from one another instead of aiming at the credit which comes from the only God?

John 5:45 (show verse)

Do not imagine I am going to accuse you to the Father; Moses is your accuser, Moses who is your hope!

John 5:46 (show verse)

For if you believed Moses you would believe me, since it was of me that he wrote.

John 5:47 (show verse)

But if you do not believe what he wrote, how will you ever believe what I say?"