Part 7

43:005:001 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

43:005:002 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.

43:005:003 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

43:005:004 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.

43:005:005 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.

43:005:006 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?

43:005:007 The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.

43:005:008 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.

43:005:009 And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.

43:005:010 The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.

43:005:011 He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.

43:005:012 Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?

43:005:013 And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place.

43:005:014 Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.

43:005:015 The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole.

43:005:016 And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.

43:005:017 But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.

43:005:018 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

43:005:019 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.

43:005:020 For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.

43:005:021 For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.

43:005:022 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:

43:005:023 That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.

43:005:024 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

43:005:025 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.

43:005:026 For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;

43:005:027 And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.

43:005:028 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,