John 5:7-34

⁷The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I do not have a man, so that whenever the water is stirred up, he may put me into the pool; but while I am coming, another steps down before me.”

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

⁹And immediately the man became well, and took up his bed, and began to walk. And that day was the Sabbath.

¹⁰Therefore the Jews said to the man who was healed, “It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed.”

¹¹He answered them, “He that made me whole, He said to me, ‘Take up your bed and walk.’ ”

¹²Then they asked him, “Who is the Man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?”

¹³But the one who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had turned aside, while a crowd was in that place.

¹⁴After these things Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “Behold, you have become well. Sin no more, lest something worse happens to you.”

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

¹⁶And on account of this the Jews began to persecute Jesus, and were seeking to kill Him, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.

¹⁷But Jesus answered them, “My Father has been working until now, and I am working.”

¹⁸Because of this the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but also He called God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

¹⁹Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father doing; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner.

²⁰For the Father loves the Son, and shows to Him all things which He Himself does; and greater works than these He will show Him, so that you may marvel.

²¹For as the Father raises up the dead and gives life, thus also the Son gives life to whom He wills.

²²For the Father judges no one, but He has committed all judgment to the Son,

²³so that all may honor the Son even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

²⁴“Most assuredly I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has eternal life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

²⁵Most assuredly I say to you, that an hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those having heard shall 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 also, because He is the Son of Man.

²⁸Do not marvel at this; for an hour is coming in which all those in the tombs will hear His voice

²⁹and shall come forth—those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of damnation.

³⁰I can of My own self do nothing. Even as I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.

³¹“If I alone testify of Myself, My testimony is not true.

³²There is another who testifies about Me, and I know that the testimony which He testifies concerning Me is true.

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

³⁴But I do not receive the testimony from man, but these things I say so that you may be saved.