Thematic Bible
John 5:1 (show verse)
Later on there was a Jewish feast (festival), and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
John 5:2 (show verse)
Now in Jerusalem, near the Sheep Gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew (Jewish Aramaic) Bethesda, having five porticoes (alcoves, colonnades).
John 5:3 (show verse)
In these porticoes lay a great number of people who were sick, blind, lame, withered, [waiting for the stirring of the water;
John 5:4 (show verse)
for an angel of the Lord went down into the pool at appointed seasons and stirred up the water; the first one to go in after the water was stirred was healed of his disease.]
John 5:5 (show verse)
There was a certain man there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.
John 5:6 (show verse)
When Jesus noticed him lying there [helpless], knowing that he had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to get well?”
John 5:7 (show verse)
The invalid answered, “Sir, I have no one to put me in the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am coming [to get into it myself], someone else steps down ahead of me.”
John 5:8 (show verse)
Jesus said to him, “Get up; pick up your pallet and walk.”
John 5:9 (show verse)
Immediately the man was healed and recovered his strength, and picked up his pallet and walked.
Now that day was the Sabbath.
Now that day was the Sabbath.
John 5:10 (show verse)
So the Jews kept saying to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to pick up your pallet [because it is unlawful].”
John 5:11 (show verse)
He answered them, “The Man who healed me and gave me back my strength was the One who said to me, ‘Pick up your pallet and walk.’”
John 5:12 (show verse)
They asked him, “Who is the Man who told you, ‘Pick up your pallet and walk’?”
John 5:13 (show verse)
Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away [unnoticed] since there was a crowd in that place.
John 5:14 (show verse)
Afterward, Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well! Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.”
John 5:15 (show verse)
The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
John 5:16 (show verse)
For this reason the Jews began to persecute Jesus continually because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.
John 5:17 (show verse)
But Jesus answered them, “My Father has been working until now [He has never ceased working], and I too am working.”
John 5:18 (show verse)
This made the Jews more determined than ever to kill Him, for not only was He breaking the Sabbath [from their viewpoint], but He was also calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.
John 5:19 (show verse)
So Jesus answered them by saying, “I assure you and most solemnly say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself [of His own accord], unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever things the Father does, the Son [in His turn] also does in the same way.