John 5 (NMV)
1 After this, there was a Jewish festival, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 Now in Jerusalem, near the Sheep Gate, there is a pool called Bethesda in Aramaic, which has five covered colonnades.
3 Within these lay a large number of disabled people; blind, lame, and paralyzed.
4 [Some manuscripts include: "They were waiting for the moving of the water, because an angel of the Lord would come down from time to time and stir up the water. The first one to step in after the water was stirred was healed of whatever disease he had."]
5 One man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years.
6 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew he had already been in that condition a long time, He said to him, "Do you want to be made well?"
7 "Sir," the disabled man answered, "I don't have anyone to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I'm coming, someone else goes down ahead of me."
8 "Get up," Jesus told him, "pick up your mat and walk."
9 Instantly the man was healed, picked up his mat, and began to walk. Now that day was a Sabbath,
10 so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, "It's the Sabbath. It's against the Law for you to carry your mat."
11 But he replied, "The man who made me well told me, 'Pick up your mat and walk.'"
12 "Who is this man who told you, 'Pick it up and walk'?" they asked.
13 But the man who was healed didn't know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.
14 After this, Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, "See, you have been made well. Stop sinning so that something worse doesn't happen to you."
15 The man went and reported to the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
16 Because of this, the Jews began persecuting Jesus, since He was doing these things on the Sabbath.
17 But Jesus responded to them, "My Father is still working, and I also am working."
18 This is why the Jews were trying all the more to kill Him, not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.
19 Jesus replied, "Truly, truly I tell you, the Son is not able to do anything on His own, but only what He sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son likewise does these things.
20 For the Father loves the Son and shows Him everything He is doing. And He will show Him greater works than these so that you will be amazed.
21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever He wants.
22 The Father, in fact, judges no one but has given all judgment to the Son,
23 so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.
24 Truly, truly I tell you, anyone who hears My word and believes the One who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment but has passed from death to life.
25 Truly, truly I tell you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
26 For just as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted the Son to have life in Himself.
27 And He has given Him authority to judge, because He is the Son of Man.
28 Do not be amazed at this, because a time is coming when all who are in the graves will hear His voice
29 and will come out, those who have done good things to a resurrection of life, but those who have done evil to a resurrection of judgment.
30 I can do nothing on My own. I judge only as I hear, and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of Him who sent Me.
31 If I testify about Myself, My testimony is not valid.
32 There is another who testifies about Me, and I know that His testimony about Me is true.
33 You sent messengers to John, and he testified to the truth.
34 I don't receive human testimony, but I say these things so that you may be saved.
35 John was a burning and shining lamp, and for a time you were willing to rejoice in his light.
36 But I have a greater testimony than John's because the works that the Father has given Me to finish, the very works I am doing, testify about Me that the Father has sent Me.
37 And the Father who sent Me has Himself testified about Me. You have never heard His voice or seen His form,
38 and you don't have His word dwelling in you, because you do not believe the One He sent.
39 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life, and yet they testify about Me.
40 But you are not willing to come to Me so that you may have life.
41 I do not accept glory from people.
42 But I know you, that you have no love for God within you.
43 I have come in My Father's name, and you do not accept Me. Yet if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.
44 How can you believe, since you accept glory from one another but don't seek the glory that comes from the only God?
45 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. Your accuser is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope.
46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, because he wrote about Me.
47 But if you don't believe what he wrote, how will you believe what I say?"