Book of Common Prayer

Therefore Let Us Approach God In Full Assurance of Faith And Hold On Without Wavering

¹⁹ Therefore, brothers, having confidence for the entering of the Holies by the blood of Jesus— ²⁰ which fresh^[a] and living way He inaugurated for us through^[b] the curtain, that is^[c], His flesh— ²¹ and having a great Priest over the house of God, ²² let us be approaching God with a true heart in full-assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled^[d] from an evil conscience, and having our body washed^[e] with clean water. ²³ Let us be holding-on-to the confession of our hope without-wavering, for the One having promised is faithful. ²⁴ And let us be considering^[f] one another for the provoking^[g] of love and good works, ²⁵ not forsaking the gathering-together of ourselves as is a habit with some, but exhorting^[h] one another, and so-much more by-as-much-as you see the day drawing-near.

To Now Do Otherwise Is To Trample Underfoot The Son of God

²⁶ For while^[i] we are willfully^[j] sinning^[k] after the receiving of the knowledge of the truth, a sacrifice no longer remains^[l] for sins, ²⁷ but some fearful expectation^[m] of judgment and a zeal of fire going to consume the adversaries. ²⁸ Anyone having set-aside^[n] the Law of Moses dies without compassions upon the testimony of two or three witnesses. ²⁹ For how much worse punishment^[o] do you think he will be considered-worthy— the one having trampled-underfoot the Son of God, and having regarded as defiled^[p] the blood of the covenant by which^[q] he was sanctified^[r], and having insulted^[s] the Spirit of grace? ³⁰ For we know the One having said [in Deut 32:35]: “Vengeance is for Me, I will repay”; and again [in Deut 32:36]: “The Lord will judge His people”. ³¹ It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

² Now in Jerusalem near the Sheep gate, there is a pool— the one being called Bethzatha in Hebrew, having five porticos^[a]. ³ In these porticos, a multitude of the ones being sick were lying-down— blind ones, lame ones, withered ones. ^{4 [b] 5} And there was a certain man there having thirty and eight years in his sickness. ⁶ Jesus— having seen this one lying down, and having known^[c] that he already had a long time [in his sickness]— says to him, “Do you want to become healthy?” ⁷ The one being sick answered Him, “Sir, I do not have a man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred-up. But while I am going, another goes down before me”. ⁸ Jesus says to him, “Arise, pick up your cot and walk!” ⁹ And immediately the man became healthy, and picked up his cot and was walking.

They Want To Kill Jesus Because He Breaks The Sabbath And Makes Himself Equal To God

Now it was a Sabbath on that day. ¹⁰ So the Jews were saying to the one having been cured, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to pick up your cot”. ¹¹ But the one answered them, “The One having made me healthy, that One said to me, ‘Pick up your cot and walk’”. ¹² They asked him, “Who is the man having said to you, ‘Pick up and walk’?” ¹³ But the one having been healed did not know who He was. For Jesus withdrew, a crowd being in the place. ¹⁴ After these things, Jesus finds him in the temple. And He said to him, “See— you have become healthy! Do not be sinning any longer in order that something worse may not happen to you”. ¹⁵ The man went away and reported to the Jews that Jesus was the One having made him healthy. ¹⁶ And for this reason, the Jews were persecuting Jesus— because He was doing these things on a Sabbath. ¹⁷ But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and^[d] I am working”. ¹⁸ Therefore, for this reason the Jews were seeking more to kill Him: because He was not only breaking^[e] the Sabbath, but He was also calling God His own Father, making Himself equal^[f] to God!