1 Some time later there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 In Jerusalem, near the Sheep Gate, there is a pool which in Hebrew is called Bethesda, with five covered colonnades.
3 In these lay a great number of sick people—blind, lame, and paralyzed—waiting for the water to move.
4 For from time to time an angel would go down into the pool and stir up the water; then whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was cured of whatever disease afflicted him.
5 One man there had been ill for thirty-eight years.
6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"
7 The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; and while I am on my way, someone else goes down ahead of me."
8 Jesus told him, "Get up, pick up your mat, and walk."
9 At once the man became well; he picked up his mat and began to walk. That day was a Sabbath.
10 So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat."
11 He replied, "The man who made me well is the one who told me, 'Pick up your mat and walk.'"
12 They asked him, "Who is the man who told you, 'Pick up your mat and walk'?"
13 But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped off, since there was a crowd at the place.
14 Later Jesus found him in the temple and told him, "Look, you have become well. Do not sin any longer, so that something worse does not happen to you."
15 The man went off and informed the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
16 That is why the Jews began persecuting Jesus and trying to kill him: he was doing these things on the Sabbath.
17 Jesus answered them, "My Father has been at work up to now, and I am at work as well."
18 For this the Jews tried all the harder to kill him, because he was not only breaking the Sabbath but was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal to God.
19 So Jesus responded, "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing on his own, except what he sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, the Son does in the same way.
20 The Father loves the Son and shows him everything he himself is doing, and he will show him works greater than these, so that you will be amazed.
21 Just as the Father raises the dead and makes them alive, so the Son too makes alive whomever he wishes.
22 The Father does not judge anyone; he has entrusted all judgment to the Son,
23 so that all may honor the Son as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
24 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes the one who sent me has eternal life; he does not come into condemnation but has crossed over from death into life.
25 Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is here now, 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 he has granted to the Son as well to have life in himself.
27 And he has given him authority to carry out judgment too, because he is the Son of Man.
28 Do not be amazed at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice
29 and come out: those who did good, to a resurrection of life; those who practiced evil, to a resurrection of condemnation.
30 On my own I can do nothing. I judge as I hear, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of the Father who sent me.
31 If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.
32 Someone else testifies about me, and I know that the testimony he gives about me is true.
33 You sent messengers to John, and he has testified to the truth.
34 Not that I accept testimony from a man; I say these things so that you may be saved.
35 He was the lamp that burned and shone, and for a while you were glad to delight in his light.
36 But the testimony I have is greater than John's: the works the Father has given me to complete, these 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 his word does not remain 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 these are the very ones that testify about me.
40 Yet you refuse to come to me to have life.
41 I do not accept glory from people.
42 But I know you: you do not have the love of God within you.
43 I have come in the name of my Father, and you do not accept me; if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.
44 How can you believe, when you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
45 Do not suppose that I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, the one on whom you have pinned your hopes.
46 If you believed Moses, you would believe me, because it was about me that he wrote.
47 But if you do not believe what he wrote, how will you believe what I say?"