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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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>John 5 Douay-Rheims Bible</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="/bmcc/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/catholic">Bible</a> > <a href="../">DRB</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">Douay-Rheims Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Jesus Heals at the Pool of Bethesda</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>After these things was a festival day of the Jews: and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Now there is at Jerusalem a pond, called Probatica, which in Hebrew is named Bethsaida, having five porches. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>In these lay a great multitude of sick, of blind, of lame, of withered: waiting for the moving of the water. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And an angel of the Lord descended at certain times into the pond and the water was moved. And he that went down first into the pond after the motion of the water was made whole of whatsoever infirmity he lay under. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And there was a certain man there that had been eight and thirty years under his infirmity. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Him when Jesus had seen lying, and knew that he had been now a long time, he saith to him: Wilt thou be made whole? <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The infirm man answered him: Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pond. For whilst I am coming, another goeth down before me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Jesus saith to him: Arise, take up thy bed and walk. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And immediately the man was made whole: and he took up his bed and walked. And it was the sabbath that day. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The Jews therefore said to him that was healed: It is the sabbath. It is not lawful for thee to take up thy bed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He answered them: He that made me whole, he said to me: Take up thy bed and walk. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>They asked him therefore: Who is that man who said to thee: Take up thy bed and walk? <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But he who was healed knew not who it was: for Jesus went aside from the multitude standing in the place. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Afterwards, Jesus findeth him in the temple and saith to him: Behold thou art made whole: sin no more, lest some worse thing happen to thee. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The man went his way and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him whole.</p> <p class="hdg">The Father and the Son</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But Jesus answered them: My Father worketh until now; and I work.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Hereupon therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he did not only break the sabbath but also said God was his Father, making himself equal to God.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then Jesus answered and said to them: Amen, amen, I say unto you, the Son cannot do any thing of himself, but what he seeth the Father doing: for what things soever he doth, these the Son also doth in like manner. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For the Father loveth the Son and sheweth him all things which himself doth: and greater works than these will he shew him, that you may wonder. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For as the Father raiseth up the dead and giveth life: so the Son also giveth life to whom he will. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>For neither does the Father judge any man: but hath given all judgment to the Son. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>That all men may honour the Son, as they honour the Father. He who honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father who hath sent him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Amen, amen, I say unto you that he who heareth my word and believeth him that sent me hath life everlasting: and cometh not into judgment, but is passed from death to life.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Amen, amen, I say unto you, that the hour cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>For as the Father hath life in himself, so he hath given to the Son also to have life in himself. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And he hath given him power to do judgment, because he is the Son of man. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Wonder not at this: for the hour cometh wherein all that are in the graves shall hear the voice of the Son of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And they that have done good things shall come forth unto the resurrection of life: but they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>I cannot of myself do any thing. As I hear, so I judge. And my judgment is just: because I seek not my own will. but the will of him that sent me.</p> <p class="hdg">Testimonies about Jesus</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>There is another that beareth witness of me: and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>You sent to John: and he gave testimony to the truth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>But I receive not testimony from man: but I say these things, that you may be saved. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>He was a burning and a shining light: and you were willing for a time to rejoice in his light.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>But I have a greater testimony than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to perfect, the works themselves which I do, give testimony of me, that the Father hath sent me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>And the Father himself who hath sent me hath given testimony of me: neither have you heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>And you have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him you believe not.</p> <a name="39" id="39"></a><p class="hdg">Witness of the Scripture<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../luke/16.htm#19">Luke 16:19-31</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Search the scriptures: for you think in them to have life everlasting. And the same are they that give testimony of me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>And you will not come to me that you may have life. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>I receive not glory from men. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>But I know you, that you have not the love of God in you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>I am come in the name of my Father, and you receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him you will receive. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>How can you believe, who receive glory one from another: and the glory which is from God alone, you do not seek? <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>Think not that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one that accuseth you, Moses, in whom you trust. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>For if you did believe Moses, you would perhaps believe me also: for he wrote of me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/john/5-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Douay Rheims Version - Bishop Challoner Revision<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></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="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>