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Dopo queste cose, ricorreva una festa dei Giudei e Gesú salí a Gerusalemme.

Or a Gerusalemme, vicino alla porta delle pecore, c'è una piscina detta in ebraico Betesda, che ha cinque portici.

Sotto questi giaceva un gran numero di infermi, ciechi, zoppi e paralitici, i quali aspettavano l'agitarsi dell'acqua.

Perché un angelo, in determinati momenti, scendeva nella piscina e agitava l'acqua; e il primo che vi entrava, dopo che l'acqua era agitata, era guarito da qualsiasi malattia fosse affetto.

C'era là un uomo infermo da trentotto anni.

Gesú, vedendolo disteso e sapendo che si trovava in quello stato da molto tempo, gli disse: «Vuoi essere guarito?».

L'infermo gli rispose: «Signore, io non ho nessuno che mi metta nella piscina quando l'acqua è agitata, e, mentre io vado, un altro vi scende prima di me».

Gesú gli disse: «Alzati, prendi il tuo lettuccio e cammina».

L'uomo fu guarito all'istante, prese il suo lettuccio e si mise a camminare. Or quel giorno era sabato

10 I Giudei perciò dissero a colui che era stato guarito: «sabato; non ti è lecito portare il tuo lettuccio».

11 Egli rispose loro: «Colui che mi ha guarito mi ha detto: "Prendi il tuo lettuccio e cammina"».

12 Essi allora gli domandarono: «Chi è quell'uomo che ti ha detto: "Prendi il tuo lettuccio e cammina"?».

13 Ma colui che era stato guarito non sapeva chi egli fosse, perché Gesú si era allontanato a motivo della folla che era in quel luogo.

14 Piú tardi Gesú lo trovò nel tempio e gli disse: «Ecco, tu sei stato guarito; non peccare più affinché non ti avvenga di peggio».

15 Quell'uomo se ne andò e riferí ai Giudei che era Gesú colui che lo aveva guarito.

16 Per questo i Giudei perseguitavano Gesú e cercavano di ucciderlo, perché faceva queste cose di sabato.

17 Ma Gesú rispose loro: «Il Padre mio opera fino ad ora, e anch'io opero».

18 Per questo i Giudei cercavano ancor piú di ucciderlo, perché non solo violava il sabato, ma addirittura chiamava Dio suo Padre, facendosi uguale a Dio.

19 Allora Gesú rispose e disse loro: «In verità, in verità vi dico che il Figlio non può far nulla da se stesso, se non quello che vede fare dal Padre; le cose infatti che fa il Padre, le fa ugualmente anche il Figlio.

20 Poiché il Padre ama il Figlio e gli mostra tutte le cose che egli fa; e gli mostrerà opere più grandi di queste, affinché voi ne siate meravigliati.

21 Infatti come il Padre risuscita i morti e dà loro la vita, cosí anche il Figlio dà la vita a chi vuole.

22 Poiché il Padre non giudica nessuno, ma ha dato tutto il giudizio al Figlio,

23 affinché tutti onorino il Figlio come onorano il Padre, chi non onora il Figlio, non onora il Padre che lo ha mandato.

24 In verità, in verità vi dico: Chi ascolta la mia parola e crede a colui che mi ha mandato, ha vita eterna, e non viene in giudizio, ma è passato dalla morte alla vita.

25 In verità, in verità vi dico: L'ora viene, anzi è venuta, che i morti udranno la voce del Figlio di Dio, e coloro che l'avranno udita vivranno.

26 Poiché, come il Padre ha vita in se stesso, cosí ha dato anche al Figlio di avere vita in se stesso;

27 e gli ha anche dato l'autorità di giudicare, perché è il Figlio dell'uomo.

28 Non vi meravigliate di questo, perché l'ora viene, in cui tutti coloro che sono nei sepolcri udranno la sua voce

29 e ne usciranno, quelli che hanno fatto il bene in risurrezione di vita, e quelli che hanno fatto il male in risurrezione di condanna.

30 Io non posso far nulla da me stesso; giudico secondo ciò che odo e il mio giudizio è giusto, perché non cercola mia volontà, ma la volontà del Padre che mi ha mandato.

31 Se io testimonio di me stesso, la mia testimonianza non è verace.

32 Vi è un altro che rende testimonianza di me, e io so che la testimonianza che egli rende di me è verace.

33 Voi avete mandato a interrogare Giovanni, ed egli ha reso testimonianza alla verità.

34 Ora io non prendo testimonianza da alcun uomo, ma dico queste cose affinché siate salvati.

35 Egli era una lampada ardente e lucente; e voi avete voluto gioire per breve tempo alla sua luce.

36 Ma la testimonianza che io ho è maggiore di quella di Giovanni, poiché le opere che il Padre mi ha dato da compiere, quelle opere che io faccio testimoniano di me, che il Padre mi ha mandato.

37 E il Padre, che mi ha mandato, ha egli stesso testimoniato di me; voi non avete mai udito la sua voce, né avete visto il suo volto,

38 e non avete la sua parola che dimora in voi, perché non credete in colui che egli ha mandato.

39 Voi investigate le Scritture, perché pensate di aver per mezzo di esse vita eterna; ed esse sono quelle che testimoniano di me.

40 Ma voi non volete venire a me per avere la vita.

41 lo non prendo gloria dagli uomini,

42 Ma io vi conosco, che non avete l'amore di Dio in voi.

43 Io sono venuto nel nome del Padre mio e voi non mi ricevete; se un altro venisse nel suo proprio nome, voi lo ricevereste.

44 Come potete voi credere, voi che prendete gloria gli uni dagli altri e non cercate la gloria che viene da Dio solo?

45 Non pensate che io vi accusi presso il Padre, c'è chi vi accusa, Mosé, nel quale avete riposto la vostra speranza;

46 infatti se voi credeste a Mosé, credereste anche a me, perché egli ha scritto di me.

47 Ma se non credete ai suoi scritti, come crederete alle mie parole?».

Afterwards Jesus returned to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish religious holidays. Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate, was Bethesda Pool, with five covered platforms or porches surrounding it. Crowds of sick folks—lame, blind, or with paralyzed limbs—lay on the platforms (waiting for a certain movement of the water, for an angel of the Lord came from time to time and disturbed the water, and the first person to step down into it afterwards was healed).[a]

One of the men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him and knew how long he had been ill, he asked him, “Would you like to get well?”

“I can’t,” the sick man said, “for I have no one to help me into the pool at the movement of the water. While I am trying to get there, someone else always gets in ahead of me.”

Jesus told him, “Stand up, roll up your sleeping mat and go on home!”

Instantly, the man was healed! He rolled up the mat and began walking!

But it was on the Sabbath when this miracle was done. 10 So the Jewish leaders objected. They said to the man who was cured, “You can’t work on the Sabbath! It’s illegal to carry that sleeping mat!”

11 “The man who healed me told me to,” was his reply.

12 “Who said such a thing as that?” they demanded.

13 The man didn’t know, and Jesus had disappeared into the crowd. 14 But afterwards Jesus found him in the Temple and told him, “Now you are well; don’t sin as you did before,[b] or something even worse may happen to you.”

15 Then the man went to find the Jewish leaders and told them it was Jesus who had healed him.

16 So they began harassing Jesus as a Sabbath breaker.

17 But Jesus replied, “My Father constantly does good, and I’m following his example.”[c]

18 Then the Jewish leaders were all the more eager to kill him because in addition to disobeying their Sabbath laws, he had spoken of God as his Father, thereby making himself equal with God.

19 Jesus replied, “The Son can do nothing by himself. He does only what he sees the Father doing, and in the same way. 20 For the Father loves the Son, and tells him everything he is doing; and the Son will do far more awesome miracles than this man’s healing. 21 He will even raise from the dead anyone he wants to, just as the Father does. 22 And the Father leaves all judgment of sin to his Son, 23 so that everyone will honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. But if you refuse to honor God’s Son, whom he sent to you, then you are certainly not honoring the Father.

24 “I say emphatically that anyone who listens to my message and believes in God who sent me has eternal life, and will never be damned for his sins, but has already passed out of death into life.

25 “And I solemnly declare that the time is coming, in fact, it is here, when the dead shall hear my voice—the voice of the Son of God—and those who listen shall live. 26 The Father has life in himself, and has granted his Son to have life in himself, 27 and to judge the sins of all mankind because he is the Son of Man. 28 Don’t be so surprised! Indeed the time is coming when all the dead in their graves shall hear the voice of God’s Son, 29 and shall rise again—those who have done good, to eternal life; and those who have continued in evil, to judgment.

30 “But I pass no judgment without consulting the Father. I judge as I am told. And my judgment is absolutely fair and just, for it is according to the will of God who sent me and is not merely my own.

31 “When I make claims about myself they aren’t believed, 32-33 but someone else, yes, John the Baptist,[d] is making these claims for me too. You have gone out to listen to his preaching, and I can assure you that all he says about me is true! 34 But the truest witness I have is not from a man, though I have reminded you about John’s witness so that you will believe in me and be saved. 35 John shone brightly for a while, and you benefited and rejoiced, 36 but I have a greater witness than John. I refer to the miracles I do; these have been assigned me by the Father, and they prove that the Father has sent me. 37 And the Father himself has also testified about me, though not appearing to you personally, or speaking to you directly. 38 But you are not listening to him, for you refuse to believe me—the one sent to you with God’s message.

39 “You search the Scriptures, for you believe they give you eternal life. And the Scriptures point to me! 40 Yet you won’t come to me so that I can give you this life eternal!

41-42 “Your approval or disapproval means nothing to me, for as I know so well, you don’t have God’s love within you. 43 I know, because I have come to you representing my Father and you refuse to welcome me, though you readily enough receive those who aren’t sent from him, but represent only themselves! 44 No wonder you can’t believe! For you gladly honor each other, but you don’t care about the honor that comes from the only God!

45 “Yet it is not I who will accuse you of this to the Father—Moses will! Moses, on whose laws you set your hopes of heaven. 46 For you have refused to believe Moses. He wrote about me, but you refuse to believe him, so you refuse to believe in me. 47 And since you don’t believe what he wrote, no wonder you don’t believe me either.”

Footnotes

  1. John 5:4 Many of the ancient manuscripts omit the material within the parentheses.
  2. John 5:14 don’t sin as you did before, implied; literally, “sin no more.”
  3. John 5:17 My Father constantly does good, and I’m following his example, implied; literally, “My Father works even until now, and I work.”
  4. John 5:32 John the Baptist, implied. However, most commentators believe the reference is to the witness of his Father. See v. 37.

Изцеляването на Витесда

(A)След това имаше юдейски празник и Исус отиде в Йерусалим.

(B)А в Йерусалим, близо до овчата порта, се намира къпалня, наречена по еврейски Витесда[a], която има пет преддверия.

В тях лежаха множество болни, слепи, куци и парализирани, които чакаха да се раздвижи водата.

Защото от време на време ангел слизаше в къпалнята и размътваше водата; а който пръв влизаше след раздвижването на водата, оздравяваше, от каквато болест и да беше болен.

И там имаше един човек, болен от тридесет и осем години.

Исус, като го видя да лежи и узна, че от дълго време вече боледувал, му каза: Искаш ли да оздравееш?

Болният Му отговори: Господине, нямам човек да ме спусне в къпалнята, когато се раздвижи водата, но докато дойда аз, друг слиза преди мен.

(C)Исус му каза: Стани, вдигни постелката си и ходи.

(D)И човекът веднага оздравя, вдигна постелката си и започна да ходи. А този ден беше събота.

10 (E)Затова юдеите казаха на изцеления: Събота е; и не ти е позволено да вдигнеш постелката си.

11 Но той им отговори: Онзи, Който ме изцели, ми каза: Вдигни постелката си и ходи!

12 Попитаха го: Кой е Човекът, Който ти каза: Вдигни постелката си и ходи?

13 А изцеленият не знаеше Кой е; защото Исус се беше измъкнал оттам, тъй като имаше голямо множество на това място.

14 (F)По-късно Исус го намери в храма и му каза: Ето, ти си здрав; не съгрешавай вече, за да не те сполети нещо по-лошо.

15 Човекът отиде и извести на юдеите, че Исус е, Който го изцели.

16 И затова юдеите гонеха Исус, защото вършеше тези неща в събота.

17 (G)А Исус им отговори: Отец Ми работи досега – и Аз работя.

18 (H)Затова юдеите искаха още повече да Го убият; защото не само нарушаваше съботата, но и правеше Бога Свой Отец и така правеше Себе Си равен на Бога.

Божествената власт на Сина и Неговите дела

19 (I)Затова Исус им каза: Истина, истина ви казвам: Синът не може да върши от Себе Си нищо, освен това, което вижда, че върши Отец; понеже каквото върши Той, същото върши и Синът.

20 (J)Защото Отец обича Сина и Му разкрива всичко, което Сам върши; ще Му покаже и по-велики дела, за да се чудите вие.

21 (K)Понеже както Отец възкресява мъртвите и ги съживява, така и Синът съживява тези, които иска.

22 (L)Защото и Отец не съди никого, но е дал на Сина власт да съди всички,

23 (M)за да почитат всички Сина, както почитат Отца. Който не почита Сина, не почита Отца, Който Го е пратил.

24 (N)Истина, истина ви казвам, който слуша Моето учение и вярва в Този, Който Ме е пратил, има вечен живот и няма да дойде на съд, но е преминал от смърт към живот.

25 (O)Истина, истина ви казвам, но иде час, и сега е, когато мъртвите ще чуят гласа на Божия Син и които го чуят, ще живеят.

26 Защото както Отец има живот в Себе Си, също така е дал и на Сина да има живот в Себе Си;

27 (P)и Му е дал власт да извършва съд, защото е Човешкият Син.

28 (Q)Не се чудете на това; защото иде час, когато всички, които са в гробовете, ще чуят гласа Му

29 (R)и ще излязат: онези, които са вършили добро, ще възкръснат за живот, а които са вършили зло, ще възкръснат за осъждане.

Свидетелства за Исус Христос и Неговите дела

30 (S)Аз не мога да върша нищо от Себе Си; отсъждам, както чувам; и Моят съд е справедлив, защото не искам Моята воля, но волята на Онзи, Който Ме е пратил.

31 (T)Ако Аз свидетелствам за Себе Си, свидетелството Ми не е истинно.

32 (U)Друг е, Който свидетелства за Мен; и зная, че свидетелството, което Той дава за Мен, е истинно.

33 (V)Вие пратихте до Йоан; и той засвидетелства за истината.

34 Но Аз не приемам свидетелство от човек; а казвам това, за да се спасите вие.

35 (W)Той беше светилникът, който гореше и светеше; и вие пожелахте да се радвате за малко време на неговата светлина.

36 (X)Но Аз имам свидетелство, по-голямо от Йоановото; защото делата, които Отец Ми е дал да извърша, самите дела, които върша, свидетелстват за Мене, че Отец Ме е пратил.

37 (Y)И Отец, Който Ме е пратил, Той свидетелства за Мене. Нито гласа Му сте чули някога, нито образа Му сте видели.

38 И нямате Неговото слово постоянно в себе си, защото не вярвате в Този, Когото Той е пратил.

39 (Z)Вие изследвате Писанията, понеже мислите, че в тях имате вечен живот и те са, които свидетелстват за Мен,

40 (AA)и въпреки това не искате да дойдете при Мене, за да имате живот.

41 (AB)От човеци слава не приемам;

42 но зная, че вие нямате в себе си любов към Бога.

43 Аз дойдох в името на Моя Отец и не Ме приемате; но ако дойде друг в свое име, него ще приемете.

44 (AC)Как можете да повярвате вие, които приемате слава един от друг, а не търсите славата, която е от единствения Бог.

45 (AD)Не мислете, че Аз ще ви обвиня пред Отца; има един, който ви обвинява – Моисей, на когото вие се облягате.

46 (AE)Защото ако вярвахте на Моисей, щяхте да повярвате и на Мене; понеже той за Мене писа.

47 Но ако не вярвате на неговите Писания, как ще повярвате на Моите думи?

Footnotes

  1. 5:2 Евр. Бетцата.

The Healing at the Pool

Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate(A) a pool, which in Aramaic(B) is called Bethesda[a] and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. [4] [b] One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”

“Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”

Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.”(C) At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.

The day on which this took place was a Sabbath,(D) 10 and so the Jewish leaders(E) said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.”(F)

11 But he replied, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’

12 So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?”

13 The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

14 Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning(G) or something worse may happen to you.” 15 The man went away and told the Jewish leaders(H) that it was Jesus who had made him well.

The Authority of the Son

16 So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him. 17 In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father(I) is always at his work(J) to this very day, and I too am working.” 18 For this reason they tried all the more to kill him;(K) not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.(L)

19 Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself;(M) he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. 20 For the Father loves the Son(N) and shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these,(O) so that you will be amazed. 21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life,(P) even so the Son gives life(Q) to whom he is pleased to give it. 22 Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son,(R) 23 that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him.(S)

24 “Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me(T) has eternal life(U) and will not be judged(V) but has crossed over from death to life.(W) 25 Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come(X) when the dead will hear(Y) the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live. 26 For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life(Z) in himself. 27 And he has given him authority to judge(AA) because he is the Son of Man.

28 “Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming(AB) when all who are in their graves will hear his voice 29 and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned.(AC) 30 By myself I can do nothing;(AD) I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just,(AE) for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.(AF)

Testimonies About Jesus

31 “If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.(AG) 32 There is another who testifies in my favor,(AH) and I know that his testimony about me is true.

33 “You have sent to John and he has testified(AI) to the truth. 34 Not that I accept human testimony;(AJ) but I mention it that you may be saved.(AK) 35 John was a lamp that burned and gave light,(AL) and you chose for a time to enjoy his light.

36 “I have testimony weightier than that of John.(AM) For the works that the Father has given me to finish—the very works that I am doing(AN)—testify that the Father has sent me.(AO) 37 And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me.(AP) You have never heard his voice nor seen his form,(AQ) 38 nor does his word dwell in you,(AR) for you do not believe(AS) the one he sent.(AT) 39 You study[c] the Scriptures(AU) diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life.(AV) These are the very Scriptures that testify about me,(AW) 40 yet you refuse to come to me(AX) to have life.

41 “I do not accept glory from human beings,(AY) 42 but I know you. I know that you do not have the love of God in your hearts. 43 I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him. 44 How can you believe since you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the only God[d]?(AZ)

45 “But do not think I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses,(BA) on whom your hopes are set.(BB) 46 If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.(BC) 47 But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?”(BD)

Footnotes

  1. John 5:2 Some manuscripts Bethzatha; other manuscripts Bethsaida
  2. John 5:4 Some manuscripts include here, wholly or in part, paralyzed—and they waited for the moving of the waters. From time to time an angel of the Lord would come down and stir up the waters. The first one into the pool after each such disturbance would be cured of whatever disease they had.
  3. John 5:39 Or 39 Study
  4. John 5:44 Some early manuscripts the Only One