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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>John 5 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/john/5.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/john/5-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > John 5</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../john/4.htm" title="John 4">◄</a> John 5 <a href="../john/6.htm" title="John 6">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/john/5.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">The Healing at the Pool</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts Bethzatha; other manuscripts Bethsaida">a</a></sup></span> and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-4.htm"><b>[4]</b></a></span> <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts include here, wholly or in part, paralyzed--and they waited for the moving of the waters.4 From time to time an angel of the Lord would come down and stir up the waters. The first one into the pool after each such disturbance would be cured of whatever disease they had.">b</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, <span class="red">“Do you want to get well?”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then Jesus said to him, <span class="red">“Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.</p><p class="reg">The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>But he replied, “The man who made me well said to me, <span class="red">‘Pick up your mat and walk.’</span> ”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, <span class="red">“See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.</p> <p class="sectionhead">The Authority of the Son</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>In his defense Jesus said to them, <span class="red">“My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For this reason they tried 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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Jesus gave them this answer: <span class="red">“Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="red">For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these, so that you will be amazed.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="red">For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="red">Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="red">that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him.</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="red">“Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="red">Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="red">For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="red">And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man.</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="red">“Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="red">and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="red">By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.</span></p> <p class="sectionhead">Testimonies About Jesus</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="red">“If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="red">There is another who testifies in my favor, and I know that his testimony about me is true.</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="red">“You have sent to John and he has testified to the truth.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><span class="red">Not that I accept human testimony; but I mention it that you may be saved.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><span class="red">John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you chose for a time to enjoy his light.</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span><span class="red">“I have testimony weightier than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to finish—the very works that I am doing—testify that the Father has sent me.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span><span class="red">And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You have never heard his voice nor seen his form,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span><span class="red">nor does his word dwell in you, for you do not believe the one he sent.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span><span class="red">You study <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or 39 Study">c</a></sup></span> the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span><span class="red">yet you refuse to come to me to have life.</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span><span class="red">“I do not accept glory from human beings,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span><span class="red">but I know you. I know that you do not have the love of God in your hearts.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span><span class="red">I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span><span class="red">How can you believe since you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the only God <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some early manuscripts the Only One">d</a></sup></span> ?</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span><span class="red">“But do not think I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom your hopes are set.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span><span class="red">If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/5-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span><span class="red">But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?”</span></p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotebot">Some manuscripts <i>Bethzatha</i>; other manuscripts <i>Bethsaida</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> <span class="footnotebot">Some manuscripts include here, wholly or in part, <i>paralyzed—and they waited for the moving of the waters.</i><i><span class="fnref">4</span>From time to time an angel of the Lord would come down and stir up the waters. The first one into the pool after each such disturbance would be cured of whatever disease they had.</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">39</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i><span class="fnref">39</span>Study</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">44</span> <span class="footnotebot">Some early manuscripts <i>the Only One</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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