John 4:46-5:47

New International Version

⁴⁶ Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine.^(A) And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. ⁴⁷ When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea,^(B) he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death.

⁴⁸ “Unless you people see signs and wonders,”^(C) Jesus told him, “you will never believe.”

⁴⁹ The royal official said, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”

⁵⁰ “Go,” Jesus replied, “your son will live.”

The man took Jesus at his word and departed. ⁵¹ While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living. ⁵² When he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him, “Yesterday, at one in the afternoon, the fever left him.”

⁵³ Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” So he and his whole household^(D) believed.

⁵⁴ This was the second sign^(E) Jesus performed after coming from Judea to Galilee.

The Healing at the Pool

5 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. ² Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate^(F) a pool, which in Aramaic^(G) is called Bethesda^[a] and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. ³ Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. ^{[4] [b] 5} One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. ⁶ 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?”

⁷ “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.”

⁸ Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.”^{(H) 9} At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.

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

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^(L) or something worse may happen to you.” ¹⁵ The man went away and told the Jewish leaders^(M) 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^(N) is always at his work^(O) to this very day, and I too am working.” ¹⁸ For this reason they tried all the more to kill him;^(P) not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.^(Q)

¹⁹ Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself;^(R) 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^(S) and shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these,^(T) so that you will be amazed. ²¹ For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life,^(U) even so the Son gives life^(V) to whom he is pleased to give it. ²² Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son,^{(W) 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.^(X)

²⁴ “Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me^(Y) has eternal life^(Z) and will not be judged^(AA) but has crossed over from death to life.^{(AB) 25} Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come^(AC) when the dead will hear^(AD) 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^(AE) in himself. ²⁷ And he has given him authority to judge^(AF) because he is the Son of Man.

²⁸ “Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming^(AG) 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.^{(AH) 30} By myself I can do nothing;^(AI) I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just,^(AJ) for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.^(AK)

Testimonies About Jesus

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

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

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

⁴¹ “I do not accept glory from human beings,^{(BD) 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]?^(BE)

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