John 5 - New American Standard Bible (NASB)

The Healing at Bethesda

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

² Now in Jerusalem, by ^(B)the Sheep Gate, there is a pool which ^(C)in ^[a]Hebrew is called ^[b]Bethesda, having five ^[c]porticoes. ³ In these porticoes lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, limping, or ^[d]paralyzed.^{[e] 5} Now a man was there who had been ^[f]ill for thirty-eight years. ⁶ Jesus, upon seeing this man lying there and knowing that he had already been in that condition for a long time, *said to him, “Do you want to get well?” ⁷ The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I am coming, another steps down before me.” ⁸ Jesus *said to him, “^(D)Get up, pick up your pallet and walk.” ⁹ Immediately the man became well, and picked up his pallet and began to walk.

^(E)Now it was a Sabbath on that day. ¹⁰ So ^(F)the Jews were saying to the man who was cured, “It is a Sabbath, and ^(G)it is not permissible for you to carry your pallet.” ¹¹ But he answered them, “He who made me well was the one who said to me, ‘Pick up your pallet and walk.’” ¹² They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick it up and walk’?” ¹³ But the man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away while there was a crowd in that place. ¹⁴ Afterward, Jesus *found him in the temple and said to him, “Behold, you have become well; do not ^(H)sin anymore, ^(I)so that nothing worse happens to you.” ¹⁵ The man went away, and informed ^(J)the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. ¹⁶ For this reason ^(K)the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He was doing these things on a Sabbath. ¹⁷ But He answered them, “My Father ^[g]is working until now, and I Myself am working.”

Jesus’ Equality with God

¹⁸ For this reason therefore ^(L)the Jews ^(M)were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, ^(N)making Himself equal with God.

¹⁹ Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(O)the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever ^[h]the Father does, these things the Son also does in the same way. ^{20 (P)}For the Father loves the Son and shows Him all things that He Himself is doing; and the Father will show Him ^(Q)greater works than these, so that you will be amazed. ²¹ For just as the Father raises the dead and ^(R)gives them life, so ^(S)the Son also gives life to whom He wishes. ²² For not even the Father judges anyone, but ^(T)He has given all judgment to the Son, ²³ so that all will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. ^(U)The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

²⁴ “Truly, truly, I say to you, the one who hears My word, and ^(V)believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and ^(W)does not come into judgment, but has ^(X)passed out of death into life.

Two Resurrections

²⁵ Truly, truly, I say to you, ^[i](Y)a time is coming and ^[j]even now has arrived, when ^(Z)the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who ^(AA)hear will live. ²⁶ For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He ^(AB)gave to the Son also to have life in Himself; ²⁷ and He gave Him authority to ^(AC)execute judgment, because He is ^[k]the Son of Man. ²⁸ Do not be amazed at this; for ^[l](AD)a time is coming when ^(AE)all who are in the tombs will hear His voice, ²⁹ and will come out: ^(AF)those who did the good deeds to a resurrection of life, those who committed the bad deeds to a resurrection of judgment.

³⁰ “^(AG)I can do nothing ^[m]on My own. As I hear, I judge; and ^(AH)My judgment is ^[n]righteous, because I do not seek My own will but ^(AI)the will of Him who sent Me.

³¹ “^(AJ)If I alone testify about Myself, My testimony is not ^[o]true. ³² There is ^(AK)another who testifies about Me, and I know that the testimony which He gives about Me is true.

Testimony of John the Baptist

³³ You have sent messengers to John, and he ^(AL)has testified to the truth. ³⁴ But ^(AM)the testimony I receive is not from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved. ³⁵ He was ^(AN)the lamp that was burning and shining, and you ^(AO)were willing to rejoice for ^[p]a while in his light.

Testimony of Works

³⁶ But the testimony I have is greater than the testimony of John; for ^(AP)the works which the Father has given Me ^(AQ)to accomplish—the very works that I do—testify about Me, that the Father ^(AR)has sent Me.

Testimony of the Father

³⁷ And the Father who sent Me, ^(AS)He has testified about Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form. ³⁸ Also you do not have ^(AT)His word remaining in you, because you do not believe Him whom He ^(AU)sent.

Testimony of the Scripture

^{39 [q](AV)}You examine the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is ^(AW)those very Scriptures that testify about Me; ⁴⁰ and yet you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life. ^{41 (AX)}I do not receive glory from people; ⁴² but I know you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves. ⁴³ I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not ^[r]receive Me; ^(AY)if another comes in his own name, you will ^[s]receive him. ⁴⁴ How can you believe, when you ^[t](AZ)accept ^[u]glory from one another and you do not seek ^(BA)the ^[v]glory that is from ^(BB)the one and only God? ⁴⁵ Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; the one who accuses you is ^(BC)Moses, in whom you have put your hope. ⁴⁶ For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for ^(BD)he wrote about Me. ⁴⁷ But ^(BE)if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”

Footnotes

1. John 5:2 I.e., Jewish Aramaic
2. John 5:2 Some early mss Bethsaida or Bethzatha
3. John 5:2 Or colonnades (with roofs)
4. John 5:3 Or had shrunken limbs
5. John 5:3 Late mss add the following as the remainder of v 3, and v 4: paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the waters; for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool and stirred up the water; whoever then first stepped in after the stirring up of the water was made well from whatever disease with which he was afflicted
6. John 5:5 Lit in his sickness
7. John 5:17 I.e., has been and continues
8. John 5:19 Lit that One
9. John 5:25 Lit an hour
10. John 5:25 Lit now is, when
11. John 5:27 Or a son of man
12. John 5:28 Lit an hour
13. John 5:30 Or of Myself
14. John 5:30 Or fair
15. John 5:31 I.e., admissible as legal evidence
16. John 5:35 Lit an hour
17. John 5:39 Or (a command) Examine the Scriptures
18. John 5:43 Or accept
19. John 5:43 Or accept
20. John 5:44 Or receive
21. John 5:44 Or honor
22. John 5:44 Or honor

Cross references

1. John 5:1 : Deut 16:1; John 2:13
2. John 5:2 : Neh 3:1, 32; 12:39
3. John 5:2 : John 19:13, 17, 20; 20:16; Acts 21:40; Rev 9:11; 16:16
4. John 5:8 : Matt 9:6; Mark 2:11; Luke 5:24
5. John 5:9 : John 9:14
6. John 5:10 : John 1:19; 5:15, 16, 18
7. John 5:10 : Neh 13:19; Jer 17:21f; Matt 12:2; Luke 6:2; John 7:23; 9:16
8. John 5:14 : Mark 2:5; John 8:11
9. John 5:14 : Ezra 9:14
10. John 5:15 : John 1:19; 5:16, 18
11. John 5:16 : John 1:19; 5:10, 15, 18
12. John 5:18 : John 1:19; 5:15, 16
13. John 5:18 : John 5:16; 7:1
14. John 5:18 : John 10:33; 19:7
15. John 5:19 : Matt 26:39; John 5:30; 6:38; 8:28; 12:49; 14:10
16. John 5:20 : Matt 3:17; John 3:35; 2 Pet 1:17
17. John 5:20 : John 14:12
18. John 5:21 : Rom 4:17; 8:11
19. John 5:21 : John 11:25
20. John 5:22 : John 5:27; 9:39; Acts 10:42; 17:31
21. John 5:23 : Luke 10:16; 1 John 2:23
22. John 5:24 : John 3:18; 12:44; 20:31; 1 John 5:13
23. John 5:24 : John 3:18
24. John 5:24 : 1 John 3:14
25. John 5:25 : John 4:21, 23; 5:28
26. John 5:25 : Luke 15:24
27. John 5:25 : John 6:60; 8:43, 47; 9:27
28. John 5:26 : John 1:4; 6:57
29. John 5:27 : John 9:39; Acts 10:42; 17:31
30. John 5:28 : John 4:21
31. John 5:28 : John 11:24; 1 Cor 15:52
32. John 5:29 : Dan 12:2; Matt 25:46; Acts 24:15
33. John 5:30 : John 5:19
34. John 5:30 : John 8:16
35. John 5:30 : John 4:34; 6:38
36. John 5:31 : John 8:14
37. John 5:32 : John 5:37
38. John 5:33 : John 1:7, 15, 19, 32; 3:26-30
39. John 5:34 : John 5:32; 1 John 5:9
40. John 5:35 : 2 Sam 21:17; 2 Pet 1:19
41. John 5:35 : Mark 1:5
42. John 5:36 : Matt 11:4; John 2:23; 10:25, 38; 14:11; 15:24
43. John 5:36 : John 4:34
44. John 5:36 : John 3:17
45. John 5:37 : Matt 3:17; Mark 1:11; Luke 3:22; 24:27; John 8:18; 1 John 5:9
46. John 5:38 : 1 John 2:14
47. John 5:38 : John 3:17
48. John 5:39 : John 7:52; Rom 2:17ff
49. John 5:39 : Luke 24:25, 27; Acts 13:27
50. John 5:41 : John 5:44; 7:18; 1 Thess 2:6
51. John 5:43 : Matt 24:5
52. John 5:44 : John 5:41
53. John 5:44 : Rom 2:29
54. John 5:44 : John 17:3; 1 Tim 1:17
55. John 5:45 : John 9:28; Rom 2:17ff
56. John 5:46 : Luke 24:27
57. John 5:47 : Luke 16:29, 31