John 5:2-24

²Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which in Hebrew is called Bethesda, and it has five roofed porches.

³A large number of people who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed were lying there.

⁵A certain man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.

⁶When Jesus saw him lying there, and after he realized that he had been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healthy?”

⁷The sick man replied, “Sir, I do not have anyone to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. When I come, another steps down before me.”

⁸Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.”

⁹Immediately the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was a Sabbath.

¹⁰So the Jews said to him who was healed, “It is the Sabbath and you are not permitted to carry your mat.”

¹¹He replied, “He who made me healthy said to me, 'Pick up your mat and walk.'”

¹²They asked him, “Who is the man that said to you, 'Pick it up and walk'?”

¹³However, the one who was healed did not know who it was because Jesus had gone away secretly, for there was a crowd in the place.

¹⁴Afterward, Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you have become healthy! Do not sin anymore, so that something worse will not happen to you.”

¹⁵The man went away and reported to the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him healthy.

¹⁶Now because of these things the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did these things on the Sabbath.

¹⁷Jesus replied to them, “My Father is working even now, and I, too, am working.”

¹⁸Because of this, the Jews sought even more to kill him because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal to God.

¹⁹Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, the Son can do nothing of himself, except only what he sees the Father doing, for whatever the Father is doing, the Son does these things also.

²⁰For the Father loves the Son and he shows him everything that he himself does, and he will show him greater things than these so that you will be amazed.

²¹For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes.

²²For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son

²³so that everyone will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

²⁴Truly, truly, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but he has passed from death to life.