John 4:18-5:44

English Standard Version

¹⁸ for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.” ¹⁹ The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that ^(A)you are ^(B)a prophet. ^20 (C)Our fathers worshiped on ^(D)this mountain, but you say that ^(E)in Jerusalem is ^(F)the place where people ought to worship.” ²¹ Jesus said to her, ^(G)“Woman, believe me, ^(H)the hour is coming when ^(I)neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. ^22 (J)You worship what you do not know; ^(K)we worship what we know, for ^(L)salvation is ^(M)from the Jews. ²³ But ^(N)the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father ^(O)in spirit and ^(P)truth, for the Father ^(Q)is seeking such people to worship him. ²⁴ God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” ²⁵ The woman said to him, “I know that ^(R)Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, ^(S)he will tell us all things.” ²⁶ Jesus said to her, ^(T)“I who speak to you am he.”

²⁷ Just then ^(U)his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?” ²⁸ So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, ²⁹ “Come, see a man ^(V)who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?” ³⁰ They went out of the town and were coming to him.

³¹ Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, ^(W)“Rabbi, eat.” ³² But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” ³³ So the disciples said to one another, ^(X)“Has anyone brought him something to eat?” ³⁴ Jesus said to them, ^(Y)“My food is ^(Z)to do the will of him who sent me and ^(AA)to accomplish his work. ³⁵ Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that ^(AB)the fields are white for harvest. ³⁶ Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that ^(AC)sower and ^(AD)reaper ^(AE)may rejoice together. ³⁷ For here the saying holds true, ^(AF)‘One sows and another reaps.’ ³⁸ I sent you to reap ^(AG)that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, ^(AH)and you have entered into their labor.”

³⁹ Many Samaritans ^(AI)from that town believed in him ^(AJ)because of ^(AK)the woman's testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.” ⁴⁰ So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. ⁴¹ And many more believed ^(AL)because of his word. ⁴² They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, ^(AM)and we know that this is indeed ^(AN)the Savior ^(AO)of the world.”

⁴³ After ^(AP)the two days he departed for Galilee. ⁴⁴ (For Jesus himself had testified ^(AQ)that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.) ⁴⁵ So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, ^(AR)having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For ^(AS)they too had gone to the feast.

Jesus Heals an Official's Son

⁴⁶ So he came again to ^(AT)Cana in Galilee, ^(AU)where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill. ⁴⁷ When this man heard that Jesus ^(AV)had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. ⁴⁸ So Jesus said to him, ^(AW)“Unless you^[a] see signs and wonders you will not believe.” ⁴⁹ The official said to him, “Sir, come down ^(AX)before my child dies.” ⁵⁰ Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way. ⁵¹ As he was going down, his servants^[b] met him and told him that his son was recovering. ⁵² So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour^[c] the fever left him.” ⁵³ The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” And he himself believed, ^(AY)and all his household. ^54 (AZ)This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.

The Healing at the Pool on the Sabbath

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

² Now there is in Jerusalem by ^(BB)the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic^[d] called Bethesda,^[e] which has five roofed colonnades. ³ In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and ^(BC)paralyzed.^{[f] 5} One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. ⁶ When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” ⁷ The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.” ⁸ Jesus said to him, ^(BD)“Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” ^9 (BE)And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked.

^(BF)Now that day was the Sabbath. ¹⁰ So the Jews^[g] said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and ^(BG)it is not lawful for you to take up your bed.” ¹¹ But he answered them, “The man who healed me, that man said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and walk.’” ¹² They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?” ¹³ Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for ^(BH)Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place. ¹⁴ Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well! ^(BI)Sin no more, ^(BJ)that nothing worse may happen to you.” ¹⁵ The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him. ¹⁶ And this was why the Jews ^(BK)were persecuting Jesus, ^(BL)because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. ¹⁷ But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”

Jesus Is Equal with God

¹⁸ This was why the Jews ^(BM)were seeking all the more to kill him, ^(BN)because not only was he ^(BO)breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God ^(BP)his own Father, ^(BQ)making himself equal with God.

The Authority of the Son

¹⁹ So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(BR)the Son ^(BS)can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father^[h] does, that the Son does likewise. ²⁰ For ^(BT)the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. And ^(BU)greater works than these will he show him, so that ^(BV)you may marvel. ²¹ For as the Father ^(BW)raises the dead and ^(BX)gives them life, so ^(BY)also the Son gives life ^(BZ)to whom he will. ^22 (CA)For the Father judges no one, but ^(CB)has given all judgment to the Son, ²³ that all may honor the Son, just as they ^(CC)honor the Father. ^(CD)Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. ²⁴ Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(CE)whoever hears my word and ^(CF)believes him who sent me has eternal life. He ^(CG)does not come into judgment, but ^(CH)has passed from death to life.

²⁵ “Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(CI)an hour is coming, and is now here, when ^(CJ)the dead will hear ^(CK)the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear ^(CL)will live. ^26 (CM)For as the Father has life in himself, ^(CN)so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. ²⁷ And he ^(CO)has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man. ²⁸ Do not marvel at this, for ^(CP)an hour is coming when ^(CQ)all who are in the tombs will hear his voice ²⁹ and come out, ^(CR)those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

Witnesses to Jesus

^30 (CS)“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and ^(CT)my judgment is just, because ^(CU)I seek not my own will ^(CV)but the will of him who sent me. ^31 (CW)If I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not true. ³² There is ^(CX)another who bears witness about me, and ^(CY)I know that the testimony that he bears about me is true. ^33 (CZ)You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth. ³⁴ Not that ^(DA)the testimony that I receive is from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved. ³⁵ He was a burning and ^(DB)shining lamp, and ^(DC)you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. ³⁶ But ^(DD)the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For ^(DE)the works that the Father has given me ^(DF)to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, ^(DG)bear witness about me that ^(DH)the Father has sent me. ³⁷ And the Father who sent me ^(DI)has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, ^(DJ)his form you have never seen, ³⁸ and ^(DK)you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe the one whom he has sent. ^39 (DL)You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and ^(DM)it is they that bear witness about me, ⁴⁰ yet ^(DN)you refuse to come to me that you may have life. ^41 (DO)I do not receive glory from people. ⁴² But ^(DP)I know that you do not have ^(DQ)the love of God within you. ⁴³ I have come ^(DR)in my Father's name, and ^(DS)you do not receive me. ^(DT)If another comes in his own name, you will receive him. ⁴⁴ How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and ^(DU)do not seek the glory that comes from ^(DV)the only God?