John 5 - English Standard Version Anglicised (ESVUK)

The Healing at the Pool on the Sabbath

5 After this there was a ^(A)feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

² Now there is in Jerusalem by ^(B)the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic^[a] called Bethesda,^[b] which has five roofed colonnades. ³ In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and ^(C)paralysed.^{[c] 5} One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. ⁶ When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” ⁷ The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.” ⁸ Jesus said to him, ^(D)“Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” ^{9 (E)}And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked.

^(F)Now that day was the Sabbath. ¹⁰ So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and ^(G)it is not lawful for you to take up your bed.” ¹¹ But he answered them, “The man who healed me, that man said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and walk.’” ¹² They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?” ¹³ Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for ^(H)Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place. ¹⁴ Afterwards Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well! ^(I)Sin no more, ^(J)that nothing worse may happen to you.” ¹⁵ The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him. ¹⁶ And this was why the Jews ^(K)were persecuting Jesus, ^(L)because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. ¹⁷ But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”

Jesus Is Equal with God

¹⁸ This was why the Jews ^(M)were seeking all the more to kill him, ^(N)because not only was he ^(O)breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God ^(P)his own Father, ^(Q)making himself equal with God.

The Authority of the Son

¹⁹ So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(R)the Son ^(S)can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father^[d] does, that the Son does likewise. ²⁰ For ^(T)the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. And ^(U)greater works than these will he show him, so that ^(V)you may marvel. ²¹ For as the Father ^(W)raises the dead and ^(X)gives them life, so ^(Y)also the Son gives life ^(Z)to whom he will. ^{22 (AA)}The Father judges no one, but ^(AB)has given all judgement to the Son, ²³ that all may honour the Son, just as they ^(AC)honour the Father. ^(AD)Whoever does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent him. ²⁴ Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(AE)whoever hears my word and ^(AF)believes him who sent me has eternal life. He ^(AG)does not come into judgement, but ^(AH)has passed from death to life.

²⁵ “Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(AI)an hour is coming, and is now here, when ^(AJ)the dead will hear ^(AK)the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear ^(AL)will live. ^{26 (AM)}For as the Father has life in himself, ^(AN)so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. ²⁷ And he ^(AO)has given him authority to execute judgement, because he is the Son of Man. ²⁸ Do not marvel at this, for ^(AP)an hour is coming when ^(AQ)all who are in the tombs will hear his voice ²⁹ and come out, ^(AR)those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgement.

Witnesses to Jesus

^{30 (AS)}“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and ^(AT)my judgement is just, because ^(AU)I seek not my own will ^(AV)but the will of him who sent me. ^{31 (AW)}If I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not deemed true. ³² There is ^(AX)another who bears witness about me, and ^(AY)I know that the testimony that he bears about me is true. ^{33 (AZ)}You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth. ³⁴ Not that ^(BA)the testimony that I receive is from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved. ³⁵ He was a burning and ^(BB)shining lamp, and ^(BC)you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. ³⁶ But ^(BD)the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For ^(BE)the works that the Father has given me ^(BF)to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, ^(BG)bear witness about me that ^(BH)the Father has sent me. ³⁷ And the Father who sent me ^(BI)has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, ^(BJ)his form you have never seen, ³⁸ and ^(BK)you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe the one whom he has sent. ^{39 (BL)}You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and ^(BM)it is they that bear witness about me, ⁴⁰ yet ^(BN)you refuse to come to me that you may have life. ^{41 (BO)}I do not receive glory from people. ⁴² But ^(BP)I know that you do not have ^(BQ)the love of God within you. ⁴³ I have come ^(BR)in my Father's name, and ^(BS)you do not receive me. ^(BT)If another comes in his own name, you will receive him. ⁴⁴ How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and ^(BU)do not seek the glory that comes from ^(BV)the only God? ⁴⁵ Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you: Moses, ^(BW)on whom you have set your hope. ⁴⁶ For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for ^(BX)he wrote of me. ⁴⁷ But ^(BY)if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”

Footnotes

1. John 5:2 Or Hebrew
2. John 5:2 Some manuscripts Bethsaida
3. John 5:3 Some manuscripts insert, wholly or in part, waiting for the moving of the water; ⁴for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool, and stirred the water: whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had
4. John 5:19 Greek he

Cross references

1. John 5:1 : See ch. 6:4
2. John 5:2 : Neh. 3:1, 32; 12:39
3. John 5:3 : Matt. 12:10
4. John 5:8 : Matt. 9:6, 7; Mark 2:9, 11, 12; Luke 5:24, 25
5. John 5:9 : [See ver. 8 above]; Matt. 9:6, 7; Mark 2:9, 11, 12; Luke 5:24, 25
6. John 5:9 : ch. 9:14
7. John 5:10 : Ex. 20:10; Neh. 13:19; Jer. 17:21, 22; [ch. 7:23; 9:16; Matt. 12:2; Mark 2:24; 3:4; Luke 6:2; 13:14]
8. John 5:13 : [ch. 6:15]
9. John 5:14 : [ch. 8:11]
10. John 5:14 : [Ezra 9:14]
11. John 5:16 : ch. 15:20; [Acts 9:4, 5]
12. John 5:16 : ch. 7:23; 9:16
13. John 5:18 : See ch. 7:1
14. John 5:18 : See ch. 10:33
15. John 5:18 : ver. 16
16. John 5:18 : [Rom. 8:32]
17. John 5:18 : Phil. 2:6
18. John 5:19 : See ver. 30
19. John 5:19 : [ch. 16:13]
20. John 5:20 : ch. 3:35; 10:17; 15:9, 10; 17:23-26; [Matt. 3:17]
21. John 5:20 : [ch. 14:12]
22. John 5:20 : ch. 7:21
23. John 5:21 : [Deut. 32:39; 2 Cor. 1:9]
24. John 5:21 : Rom. 4:17; 8:11
25. John 5:21 : [ch. 6:33; 11:25]; See 1 Cor. 15:45
26. John 5:21 : [Rom. 9:18]
27. John 5:22 : [Acts 17:31]
28. John 5:22 : ver. 27; ch. 9:39; Acts 10:42; [ch. 3:17]; See ch. 17:2
29. John 5:23 : ch. 8:49
30. John 5:23 : Luke 10:16; [ch. 15:23; 1 John 2:23]
31. John 5:24 : [ch. 8:51]
32. John 5:24 : ch. 20:31; 1 John 5:9-13; [ch. 3:15, 36; 12:44]
33. John 5:24 : ch. 3:18; [ver. 29]
34. John 5:24 : 1 John 3:14
35. John 5:25 : See ch. 4:21, 23
36. John 5:25 : See Eph. 2:1, 5
37. John 5:25 : [ch. 11:43]
38. John 5:25 : See Eph. 2:1, 5
39. John 5:26 : [ch. 6:57]
40. John 5:26 : See ch. 1:4; 17:2
41. John 5:27 : ver. 22
42. John 5:28 : [See ver. 25 above]; See ch. 4:21, 23
43. John 5:28 : ch. 11:24; 1 Cor. 15:52; [ch. 11:44, 45]
44. John 5:29 : See Dan. 12:2
45. John 5:30 : ver. 19; ch. 8:28; 14:10
46. John 5:30 : ch. 8:16
47. John 5:30 : ch. 4:34; 6:38; [ch. 7:18; Rom. 15:3]
48. John 5:30 : See Matt. 26:39
49. John 5:31 : [ch. 8:13, 14, 18, 54; 18:21]
50. John 5:32 : ver. 37
51. John 5:32 : ch. 7:28, 29
52. John 5:33 : See ch. 1:7, 19
53. John 5:34 : 1 John 5:9
54. John 5:35 : 2 Pet. 1:19
55. John 5:35 : [Matt. 13:20; 21:26]
56. John 5:36 : [See ver. 34 above]; 1 John 5:9
57. John 5:36 : ch. 10:25, 38; 14:11; 15:24; [ch. 2:23; Matt. 11:4]
58. John 5:36 : See ch. 4:34
59. John 5:36 : [ch. 3:2]
60. John 5:36 : See ch. 3:17
61. John 5:37 : ch. 8:18; [Matt. 3:17]
62. John 5:37 : See ch. 1:18
63. John 5:38 : [1 John 2:14; 4:13, 14; 5:10]
64. John 5:39 : [Acts 17:11; 2 Tim. 3:15]
65. John 5:39 : See Luke 24:27
66. John 5:40 : ver. 43; ch. 3:19; 7:17; [Matt. 23:37; Luke 13:34]
67. John 5:41 : ver. 34; [Matt. 6:1, 2; 1 Thess. 2:6]
68. John 5:42 : See ch. 2:24, 25
69. John 5:42 : Luke 11:42; See Jude 21
70. John 5:43 : ch. 10:25; 12:13; 17:12
71. John 5:43 : ch. 1:11; 3:11, 32
72. John 5:43 : [Matt. 24:5]
73. John 5:44 : Rom. 2:29
74. John 5:44 : ch. 17:3
75. John 5:45 : [ch. 9:28, 29; Rom. 2:17]
76. John 5:46 : ver. 47; Num. 21:9; Deut. 18:15; Luke 24:27; [ch. 12:41]
77. John 5:47 : [Luke 16:31]