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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 Mace New Testament</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="../">Mace</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Mace New Testament</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/john/5-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Pool of Bethesda<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Some time after this the feast of the Jews being come, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>now there was at Jerusalem by the sheep-gate a bath, called in Hebrew, Bethesda, which had five portico's. <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>where a great number of infirm, blind, lame, and paralytic people lay waiting for the moving of the water: <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-3.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>(for a messenger went down at certain times into the pool, and agitated the water: the first then that stepped in after this commotion of the water, was cured of whatever disease he had.) <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>now a certain man was there, who had been sick eight and thirty years. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Jesus seeing him lie there, and knowing that he had been sick a long time, said to him, will you be cured? <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>the sick man answered him, sir, I have nobody to put me into the pool when the water has been agitated: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>rise, said Jesus to him, take up thy bed, and go your way. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>and immediately the man was healed, and took up his bed, and went his way: but that day being the sabbath, <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>the Jews said to him that was cured, it is the sabbath-day; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>he answered them, he that cured me said to me, take up your bed and walk. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>then they asked him, who is he that said to you take up your bed and walk? <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>and he that was healed, did not know who it was: for Jesus had slip'd away, by favour of the crowd that was there. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>sometime after Jesus met him in the temple, and said to him, you see you were cured: sin no more, lest you suffer something worse. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>then the man departed to acquaint the Jews, that it was Jesus who had cured him.<p> <A name="17"></a><p class="hdg">The Father and the Son<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>upon which occasion the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he did such things on the sabbath-day. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But Jesus answered them, my father works without intermission, and so do I.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>therefore the Jews were the more eager to kill him, because he had not only violated the sabbath, but likewise, because he had said that God was his proper father, making himself equal with God.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>upon which Jesus said to them, verily, verily I say unto you, the son can do nothing of himself, except he sees the father do it: for whatever he doth, that the son does likewise. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>for the father loveth the son, and sheweth him all that he himself doth: and he will shew him greater works than these, so that you will be surprized. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>for as the father raiseth up the dead, and restores them to life: even so the son gives life to whom he will. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>besides, the father judgeth no man; but hath committed the full power of judging unto the son: <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>that all men should honour the son, even as they honour the father, he that honoureth not the son, honoureth not the father who hath sent him.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>I declare unto you, he that heareth my doctrine, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come under condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>I declare unto you, the time is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the son of God: and they that hear shall live. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>for as the father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the son, to have life in himself; <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>and hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the son of man. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>let not this surprize you: for the time is coming, when all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and they that have done good, <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>shall rise to the possession of life; and they that have done evil, shall rise to their condemnation.<p> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Of my self I can do nothing: according to my instructions I judge: and my judgment is just; because I do not consult my own will, but the will of the father who hath sent me.<p> <A name="32"></a><p class="hdg">Testimonies about Jesus<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>if I testified of my self, my testimony would be suspected. <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>there is another who testifies of me, and I know that the testimony which he gives of me, is true.<p> <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>you yourselves sent to John, and he bore witness to the truth. <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>not that I need the testimony of men: but this I tell you, for your own security. <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>he was a burning and a shining light: and you were willing to be entertain'd for a while with his light.<p> <A name="37"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>but I have a better witness than that of John: for the works which my father hath order'd me to finish, those very works that I do, bear me witness, that 'tis the father who sent me.<p> <A name="38"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>and the father who sent me, hath himself born witness of me, his voice you have never heard, nor ever seen his appearance, <A name="39"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>nor will his Logos abide among you: for tho' he hath sent him, you do not believe him.<p> <A name="40"></a><p class="hdg">The Witness of Scripture<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../luke/16.htm#19">Luke 16:19–31</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>You search the scriptures, for you think by their means to have eternal life, and they are the very writings which do testify of me. <A name="41"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>yet you will not come to me, that ye may have life. <A name="42"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>I do not by this seek your applause. <A name="43"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>for this I know of you, that you are not possess'd with any love for God. <A name="44"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>I am come in my father's name, and you receive me not: if another should come in his own name, him you will receive. <A name="45"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>how can you believe, who are catching at honour one from another, regardless of that glory that comes from God only? <A name="46"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>don't imagine that I shall accuse you to my father: even Moses himself in whom you confide, will be your accuser. <A name="47"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>for had you believed Moses, you would have believed me: since he has spoke of me in his writings. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/5-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>but if you don't believe what he has writ, how should you believe what I say?<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Daniel Mace New Testament (1729)<br><br>Digital Text Courtesy <a href="https://theword.net">TheWord.net Bible Software</a>.<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../john/4.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="John 4"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="John 4" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../john/6.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="John 6"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="John 6" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>