John 5

Command to Walk John 5:6–9

⁶Verse 6. When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him,“Do you want to be made well?”⁷Verse 7. The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, another steps down before me.”⁸Verse 8. Jesus said to him,“Arise, take up your mat, and walk.”⁹Verse 9. Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked.Now it was the Sabbath on that day.

Sabbath Controversy Begins John 5:10–13

¹⁰Verse 10. So the Jews said to him who was cured, “It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat.” ¹¹Verse 11. He answered them, “He who made me well, the same said to me, ‘Take up your mat, and walk.’” ¹²Verse 12. Then they asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your mat, and walk’?” ¹³Verse 13. But he who was healed didn’t know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place.

Warning and Persecution John 5:14–16

¹⁴Verse 14. Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you.” ¹⁵Verse 15. The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. ¹⁶Verse 16. For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.

Jesus' Defense of His Work John 5:17–24

¹⁷Verse 17. But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.” ¹⁸Verse 18. For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God. ¹⁹Verse 19. Jesus therefore answered them, “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise. ²⁰Verse 20. For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel.

²¹Verse 21. For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires. ²²Verse 22. For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son, ²³Verse 23. that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him. ²⁴Verse 24. “Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

Authority Over Life and Judgment John 5:25–30

²⁵Verse 25. Most certainly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live. ²⁶Verse 26. For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself. ²⁷Verse 27. He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man. ²⁸Verse 28. Don’t marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice, ²⁹Verse 29. and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.

³⁰Verse 30. I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

Testimony to Jesus’ Authority John 5:31–47

³¹Verse 31. “If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid. ³²Verse 32. It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true. ³³Verse 33. You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth. ³⁴Verse 34. But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved. ³⁵Verse 35. He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. ³⁶Verse 36. But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.

³⁷Verse 37. The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form. ³⁸Verse 38. You don’t have his word living in you; because you don’t believe him whom he sent. ³⁹Verse 39. “You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me. ⁴⁰Verse 40. Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life. ⁴¹Verse 41. I don’t receive glory from men. ⁴²Verse 42. But I know you, that you don’t have God’s love in yourselves.

⁴³Verse 43. I have come in my Father’s name, and you don’t receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him. ⁴⁴Verse 44. How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God? ⁴⁵Verse 45. “Don’t think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope. ⁴⁶Verse 46. For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me. ⁴⁷Verse 47. But if you don’t believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”