John 5:7-20

⁷The ailing man answered him, 'Sir, I have no man, that, when the water may be troubled, he may put me into the pool, and while I am coming, another doth go down before me.'

⁸Jesus saith to him, 'Rise, take up thy couch, and be walking;'

⁹and immediately the man became whole, and he took up his couch, and was walking, and it was a sabbath on that day,

¹⁰the Jews then said to him that hath been healed, 'It is a sabbath; it is not lawful to thee to take up the couch.'

¹¹He answered them, 'He who made me whole — that one said to me, Take up thy couch, and be walking;'

¹²they questioned him, then, 'Who is the man who is saying to thee, Take up thy couch and be walking?'

¹³But he that was healed had not known who he is, for Jesus did move away, a multitude being in the place.

¹⁴After these things, Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said to him, 'Lo, thou hast become whole; sin no more, lest something worse may happen to thee.'

¹⁵The man went away, and told the Jews that it is Jesus who made him whole,

¹⁶and because of this were the Jews persecuting Jesus, and seeking to kill him, because these things he was doing on a sabbath.

¹⁷And Jesus answered them, 'My Father till now doth work, and I work;'

¹⁸because of this, then, were the Jews seeking the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the sabbath, but he also called God his own Father, making himself equal to God.

¹⁹Jesus therefore responded and said to them, 'Verily, verily, I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything of himself, if he may not see the Father doing anything; for whatever things He may do, these also the Son in like manner doth;

²⁰for the Father doth love the Son, and doth shew to him all things that He himself doth; and greater works than these He will shew him, that ye may wonder.