Search the Bible
Chapter
Verse
John - ch 5 v 1 - 20
- After these things was a festival day of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
- Now there is at Jerusalem a pond, called Probatica, which in Hebrew is named Bethsaida, having five porches.
- In these lay a great multitude of sick, of blind, of lame, of withered; waiting for the moving of the water.
- 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.
- And there was a certain man there, that had been eight and thirty years under his infirmity.
- 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?
- 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.
- Jesus saith to him: Arise, take up thy bed, and walk.
- And immediately the man was made whole: and he took up his bed, and walked. And it was the sabbath that day.
- The Jews therefore said to him that was healed: It is the sabbath; it is not lawful for thee to take up thy bed.
- He answered them: He that made me whole, he said to me, Take up thy bed, and walk.
- They asked him therefore: Who is that man who said to thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?
- But he who was healed, knew not who it was; for Jesus went aside from the multitude standing in the place.
- 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.
- The man went his way, and told the Jews, that it was Jesus who had made him whole.
- Therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath.
- But Jesus answered them: My Father worketh until now; and I work.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
© 2007, ChristianWebResources.co.uk