7The sick man answered, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, another steps down before me.”
8Jesus told him, “Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk.”
9Immediately, the man was made well, took up his mat, and walked. That was on the Sabbath day.
10Therefore the Jews were telling him who was cured, “It’s the Sabbath, and it isn’t legal for you to carry your mat.”
11He answered them, “He who made me well told me, ‘Take up your mat and walk.’”
12Then they asked him, “Who told you to ‘Take up your mat and walk’?”
13The man who had been healed didn’t know who it was, because Jesus had disappeared into the crowd.
14Later, Jesus found him in the temple and told him, “See, you have been made well! Don’t sin any more, so that nothing worse happens to you.”
15The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
16For this reason, the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.
17Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.”
18Because of this, the Jews tried all the harder to kill Him. Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.
19Then Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless He sees the Father do it, for whatever He does, the Son does likewise.
20The Father loves the Son, and shows Him everything that He Himself does. He will show Him even greater works than these, that you may marvel.
21As the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whoever He wishes.
22The Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son,
23that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent Him.
24“Most assuredly, I tell you, the person who hears my words and believes in Him who sent me has everlasting life, and won’t come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.
25Most assuredly, I tell you, the time is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of God’s Son, and those who hear will live.
26For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself,
27and has given Him authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of Man.
28Don’t marvel at this, for the time is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice
John 5
John 5:7-28