New Testament in a Year

A Paralytic Is Healed

5 After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ² Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool called in Aramaic Bethzatha,^[a] which has five porticoes. ³ In these were lying a large number of those who were sick, blind, lame, paralyzed.^{[b] 5} And a certain man was there who had been thirty-eight years in his sickness. ⁶ Jesus, when he^[c] saw this one lying there and knew that he had been sick^[d] a long time already, said to him, “Do you want to become well?” ⁷ The one who was sick answered him, “Sir, I do not have anyone that, whenever the water is stirred up, could put me into the pool. But while^[e] I am coming, another goes down before me.” ⁸ Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk!” ⁹ And immediately the man became well and picked up his mat and began to walk.^[f] (Now it was the Sabbath on that day.)

¹⁰ So the Jews were saying to the one who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not permitted for you to pick up the mat!”^{[g] 11} But he answered them, “The one who made me well—that one said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk!’” ¹² So they asked him,^[h] “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your mat^[i] and walk?’” ¹³ But the one who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn while^[j] a crowd was in the place.

Equal with God

¹⁴ After these things Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “Look, you have become well! Sin no longer, lest something worse happen to you.” ¹⁵ The man went and reported to the Jews that Jesus was the one who made him well. ¹⁶ And on account of this the Jews began to persecute^[k] Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. ¹⁷ But he answered^[l] them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.” ¹⁸ So on account of this the Jews were seeking even more to kill him, because he not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God his own Father, thus^[m] making himself equal with God.

The Authority of the Son

¹⁹ So Jesus answered and said to them, “Truly, truly I say to you, the Son can do nothing from himself except what he sees the Father doing. For whatever that one does, these things also the Son does likewise. ²⁰ For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything that he himself is doing. And greater works than these he will show him, so that you will be astonished. ²¹ For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them^[n] alive, thus also the Son makes alive whomever he wishes. ²² For the Father does not judge anyone, but he has given all judgment to the Son, ²³ in order that all people^[o] will honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. ²⁴ Truly, truly I say to you that the one who hears my word and who believes the one who sent me has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.