John 5:5-23

⁵One of those who was there had been paralyzed for thirty-eight years.

⁶Jesus saw him lying there and found out that the man had been like that for a long time. He said to the man, “Do you want to become well?”

⁷The paralyzed man replied to him, “ Yes, sir, I want to get well, but there is no one to help me get down into the pool when the water is stirred {stirs}. While I am trying to get to the pool, someone else always gets there before me.”

⁸Jesus said to him, “Get up! Then pick up your mat and walk!”

⁹The man immediately was healed. He picked up his mat and started walking! The day on which this happened was a Jewish day of rest.

¹⁰So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “Today is ◄the Sabbath/our rest day►, and in our Jewish laws it is written that people should not work on our ◄ Sabbath/rest day►, so you should not be carrying your mat!”

¹¹The man replied to them, “The man who healed me, he himself said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk!’”

¹²They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick it up and walk!’?”

¹³But since Jesus had disappeared in the crowd without telling the man his name, the man did not know who it was who had healed him.

¹⁴Later, Jesus found the man in the Temple courtyard. He told the man his name, and said to him, “Listen! You are healed! So stop sinning! If you do not stop sinning, something will happen to you that will be worse than the illness you had before!”

¹⁵The man went away and told the Jewish leaders SYN that it was Jesus who had healed him.

¹⁶So the Jewish leaders SYN started to harass Jesus, because Jesus was doing these things ◄on the Sabbath/on the Jewish rest day►.

¹⁷Then Jesus replied to them, “My Father has always been working every day, including ◄ the Sabbath/the day of rest►, up until now. I am doing the same thing!”

¹⁸The Jewish leaders SYN considered that he was disobeying their rules about ◄the Sabbath/the day of rest►, and that by saying that God was his Father, he was making himself equal with God. And they considered that both these things were grounds for killing him. So they tried even harder to find a way to kill him.

¹⁹Jesus replied to them by saying, “You need to know this: I can do nothing by my own authority. I do only the kind of things that I see my Father doing. Whatever kinds of things my Father is doing, those are the things I am doing.

²⁰My Father loves me, and he shows me everything that he is doing. He will show me the miracles that he wants me to do that will be greater than the ones that you have already seen me do, so that you may be amazed.

²¹For example, just like my Father causes people who have died to become alive again, I will give eternal life to everyone that I want to.

²²Furthermore, my Father is not the one who judges people concerning their sins. Instead, he has given to me the work of judging people,

²³in order that all people may honor me, just like they honor my Father. My Father considers that anyone who does not honor me is not honoring him, the one who sent me.