Thematic Bible
John 5:1 (show verse)
After this, a Jewish festival took place, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
John 5:2 (show verse)
By the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there is a pool, called Bethesda in Hebrew, which has five colonnades.
John 5:3 (show verse)
Within these lay a large number of the sick—blind, lame, and paralyzed [—waiting for the moving of the water,
John 5:4 (show verse)
because an angel would go down into the pool from time to time and stir up the water. Then the first one who got in after the water was stirred up recovered from whatever ailment he had].
John 5:5 (show verse)
One man was there who had been sick for 38 years.
John 5:6 (show verse)
When Jesus saw him lying there and knew he had already been there a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to get well?”
John 5:7 (show verse)
“Sir,” the sick man answered, “I don’t have a man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, someone goes down ahead of me.”
John 5:8 (show verse)
John 5:9 (show verse)
Instantly the man got well, picked up his mat, and started to walk.
Now that day was the Sabbath,
Now that day was the Sabbath,
John 5:10 (show verse)
so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “This is the Sabbath! It’s illegal for you to pick up your mat.”
John 5:11 (show verse)
He replied, “The man who made me well told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’ ”
John 5:12 (show verse)
“Who is this man who told you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk’ ?” they asked.
John 5:13 (show verse)
But the man who was cured did not know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.
John 5:14 (show verse)
After this, Jesus found him in the temple complex and said to him, “See, you are well. Do not sin anymore, so that something worse doesn’t happen to you.”
John 5:15 (show verse)
The man went and reported to the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
John 5:16 (show verse)
Therefore, the Jews began persecuting Jesus because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.
John 5:17 (show verse)
But Jesus responded to them, “My Father is still working, and I am working also.”
John 5:18 (show verse)
This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill Him: Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.
John 5:19 (show verse)
Then Jesus replied, “I assure you: The Son is not able to do anything on His own, but only what He sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does these things in the same way.