John 5:6-18

Christian Standard Bible

⁶ When Jesus saw him lying there and realized he had already been there a long time,^(A) he said to him, “Do you want to get well?”

⁷ “Sir,”^(B) the disabled man answered, “I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, someone goes down ahead of me.”

⁸ “Get up,” Jesus told him, “pick up your mat and walk.” ⁹ Instantly the man got well, picked up his mat, and started to walk.

Now that day was the Sabbath,^{(C) 10} and so the Jews^(D) said to the man who had been healed, “This is the Sabbath.^(E) The law prohibits you from picking up your mat.”

¹¹ He replied, “The man who made me well^(F) told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”

¹² “Who is this man who told you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk’?” they asked. ¹³ But the man who was healed did not know who it was,^(G) because Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.^[a]

¹⁴ After this, Jesus found him in the temple^(H) and said to him, “See, you are well. Do not sin anymore, so that something worse doesn’t happen to you.” ¹⁵ The man went and reported to the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.^{(I) 16} Therefore, the Jews began persecuting^(J) Jesus^[b] because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.^(K)

Honoring the Father and the Son

¹⁷ Jesus responded to them, “My Father^(L) is still working, and I am working also.” ¹⁸ This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill him:^(M) Not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal to God.