Thematic Bible
John 5:1 (show verse)
After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
John 5:2 (show verse)
Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, "Bethesda," having five porches.
John 5:3 (show verse)
In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water;
John 5:4 (show verse)
for an angel went down at certain times into the pool, and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was made whole of whatever disease he had.
John 5:5 (show verse)
A certain man was there, who had been sick for thirty-eight years.
John 5:6 (show verse)
When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to be made well?"
John 5:7 (show verse)
The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I'm coming, another steps down before me."
John 5:8 (show verse)
Jesus said to him, "Arise, take up your mat, and walk."
John 5:9 (show verse)
Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked. Now it was the Sabbath on that day.
John 5:10 (show verse)
So the Jews said to him who was cured, "It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat."
John 5:11 (show verse)
He answered them, "He who made me well, the same said to me, 'Take up your mat, and walk.'"
John 5:12 (show verse)
Then they asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take up your mat, and walk'?"
John 5:13 (show verse)
But he who was healed didn't know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place.
John 5:14 (show verse)
Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens 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 cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.
John 5:17 (show verse)
But Jesus answered them, "My Father is still working, so I am working, too."
John 5:18 (show verse)
For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
John 5:19 (show verse)
Jesus therefore answered them, "Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.
John 5:20 (show verse)
For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel.
John 5:21 (show verse)
For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.
John 5:22 (show verse)
For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son,
John 5:23 (show verse)
that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn't honor the Son doesn't honor the Father who sent him.
John 5:24 (show verse)
"Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn't come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
John 5:25 (show verse)
Most certainly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God's voice; and those who hear will live.
John 5:26 (show verse)
For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.
John 5:27 (show verse)
He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man.
John 5:28 (show verse)
Don't marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice,
John 5:29 (show verse)
and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.
John 5:30 (show verse)
I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don't seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.
John 5:31 (show verse)
"If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid.
John 5:32 (show verse)
It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true.
John 5:33 (show verse)
You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.
John 5:34 (show verse)
But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved.
John 5:35 (show verse)
He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
John 5:36 (show verse)
But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.
John 5:37 (show verse)
The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.
John 5:38 (show verse)
You don't have his word living in you; because you don't believe him whom he sent.
John 5:39 (show verse)
"You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
John 5:40 (show verse)
Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.
John 5:41 (show verse)
I don't receive glory from men.
John 5:42 (show verse)
But I know you, that you don't have God's love in yourselves.
John 5:43 (show verse)
I have come in my Father's name, and you don't receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
John 5:44 (show verse)
How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don't seek the glory that comes from the only God?
John 5:45 (show verse)
"Don't think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.
John 5:46 (show verse)
For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.
John 5:47 (show verse)
But if you don't believe his writings, how will you believe my words?"