John 5:12-34

¹²“Who was it,” they asked, “that said to you ‘Take up your mat and walk’?”

¹³But the man who had been restored did not know who it was; for Jesus had moved away, because there was a crowd there.

¹⁴Afterward Jesus found the man in the Temple Courts, and said to him, “You are cured now; do not sin again, or something worse may happen to you.”

¹⁵The man went away, and told the authorities that it was Jesus who had cured him.

¹⁶And that was why they began to persecute Jesus — because he did things of this kind on the Sabbath.

¹⁷But Jesus replied, “My Father works to this very hour, and I work also.”

¹⁸This made the authorities all the more eager to kill him, because not only was he doing away with the Sabbath, but he actually called God his own Father — putting himself on an equality with God.

¹⁹So Jesus made this further reply, “In truth I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself; he does only what he sees the Father doing; whatever the Father does, the Son does also.

²⁰For the Father loves his Son, and shows him everything that he is doing; and he will show him still greater things — so that you will be filled with wonder.

²¹For, just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he pleases.

²²The Father himself does not judge any one, but has entrusted the work of judging entirely to his Son,

²³so that everyone may honour the Son, just as they honour the Father. The person who does not honour the Son fails to honour the Father who sent him.

²⁴In truth I tell you that the person who listens to my message and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and does not come under condemnation, but has already passed out of death into life.

²⁵In truth I tell you that a time is coming, indeed it is already here, when the dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and when those who listen will live.

²⁶For, just as the Father has inherent life within him, so also he has granted to the Son to have inherent life within him;

²⁷and, because he is Son of Man, he has also given him authority to act as judge.

²⁸Do not wonder at this; for the time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice,

²⁹and will come out — those who have done good rising to life, and those who have lived evil lives rising for condemnation.

³⁰I can do nothing of myself; I judge as I am taught; and the judgement that I give is just, because my aim is not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

³¹“If I bear testimony to myself, my testimony is not trustworthy;

³²it is another who bears testimony to me, and I know that the testimony which he bears to me is trustworthy.

³³You have yourselves sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.

³⁴But the testimony which I receive is not from people; I am saying this for your salvation.