The Concordant Literal New Testament

John’s Account

Chapter 5

¹ After these things there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up into Jerusalem.
² Now there is, in Jerusalem, at the sheep gate, a pool, which is termed, in Hebrew, "Bethesda," having five porticos.
³ In these were laid down a multitude of the infirm, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the stirring of the water.
⁴ (For a messenger of the Lord at a certain season bathed in the pool and disturbed the water. He, then, who first steps in after the disturbing of the water, became sound of whatsoever disease he was held.)
⁵ Now a certain man was there having been in his infirmity thirty-eight years.
⁶ Jesus, perceiving this one lying down, and knowing that he has already spent much time, is saying to him, "Do you want to become sound?"
⁷ The infirm man answered Him, "Lord, I have no man that, whenever the water may be disturbed, should be casting me into the pool. Now in the time in which I am coming another is descending before me."
⁸ Jesus is saying to him, "Rouse and pick up your pallet and walk!"
⁹ And immediately the man became sound, and he was roused and picks up his pallet and walked. Now it was a sabbath on that day.
¹⁰ The Jews, then, said to him who has been cured, "It is a sabbath, and it is not allowed you to pick up your pallet!"
¹¹ Yet he answered them, "He Who makes me sound, that One said to me, 'Pick up your pallet and walk.'"
¹² They ask him then, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Pick up your pallet and walk'?"
¹³ Now he who is healed had not perceived Who He is, for Jesus evades him, a throng being in the place.
¹⁴ After these things Jesus is finding him in the sanctuary, and said to him, "Lo! you have become sound. By no means longer be sinning, lest something worse may be coming to you."
¹⁵ And the man, then, came away and informs the Jews that Jesus is the One Who makes him sound.
¹⁶ And therefore the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill Him, for He did these things on a sabbath.
¹⁷ Yet Jesus answers them, "My Father is working hitherto, and I am working."
¹⁸ Therefore, then, the Jews sought the more to kill Him, for He not only annulled the sabbath, but said His own Father also is God, making Himself equal to God.
¹⁹ Jesus, then, answers and said to them, "Verily, verily, I am saying to you, The Son can not be doing anything of Himself if it is not what He should be observing the Father doing, for whatever He may be doing, this the Son also is doing likewise.
²⁰ For the Father is fond of the Son and is showing Him all that He is doing. "And greater works than these shall He be showing Him, that you may be marveling.
²¹ For even as the Father is rousing the dead and vivifying, thus the Son also is vivifying whom He will.
²² For neither is the Father judging anyone, but has given all judging to the Son,
²³ that all may be honoring the Son, according as they are honoring the Father. He who is not honoring the Son is not honoring the Father Who sends Him.
²⁴ "Verily, verily, I am saying to you that he who is hearing My word and believing Him Who sends Me, has life eonian and is not coming into judging, but has proceeded out of death into life.
²⁵ Verily, verily, I am saying to you that coming is an hour, and now is, when the dead shall be hearing the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear shall be living.
²⁶ For even as the Father has life in Himself, thus to the Son also He gives to have life in Himself.
²⁷ "And He gives Him authority to do judging, seeing that He is a son of mankind.
²⁸ Marvel not at this, for coming is the hour in which all who are in the tombs shall hear His voice,
²⁹ and those who do good shall go out into a resurrection of life, yet those who commit bad things, into a resurrection of judging.
³⁰ "I can not do anything of Myself. According as I am hearing am I judging; and My judging is just, for I am not seeking My will, but the will of Him Who sends Me.
³¹ "If I should be testifying concerning Myself, is My testimony not true?
³² There is another who is testifying concerning Me, and I am aware that the testimony which he is testifying concerning Me is true.
³³ You have dispatched to John, and he has testified to the truth.
³⁴ Yet I am not getting the testimony from man, but I am saying these things that you may be saved.
³⁵ He was a lamp, burning and appearing, yet you want to exult an hour in its light.
³⁶ "Now I have a testimony greater than John's. For the works which the Father has given Me that I should be perfecting them, the works themselves which I am doing are testifying concerning Me that the Father has commissioned Me.
³⁷ And the Father Who sends Me, He has testified concerning Me. Neither have you ever heard His voice nor a perception of Him have you seen.
³⁸ And His word you do not have remaining in you, for that One Whom He commissions, this One you are not believing.
³⁹ "Search the scriptures, for in them you are supposing you have life eonian, and those are they which are testifying concerning Me,
⁴⁰ and not willing are you to come to Me that you may have life.
⁴¹ "Glory from men I am not getting.
⁴² But I know you, that you have not the love of God in yourselves.
⁴³ I have come in the name of My Father, and you are not getting Me. If another should be coming in his own name, him you will get.
⁴⁴ How can you believe, getting glory from one another, and are not seeking the glory which is from God alone?
⁴⁵ "Be not supposing that I shall be accusing you to the Father. He who is accusing you to the Father is Moses, on whom you rely.
⁴⁶ For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he writes concerning Me.
⁴⁷ Now if you are not believing his writings, how shall you be believing My declarations?"

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