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5:1 After that, there was a feast of the Iewes, and Iesus went vp to Hierusalem.
5:2 And there is at Hierusalem by the place of the sheepe, a poole called in Ebrew Bethesda, hauing fiue porches:
5:3 In the which lay a great multitude of sicke folke, of blinde, halte, and withered, wayting for the mouing of the water.
5:4 For an Angel went downe at a certaine season into the poole, and troubled the water: whosoeuer then first, after the stirring of the water, stepped in, was made whole of whatsoeuer disease he had.
5:5 And a certaine man was there, which had bene diseased eight and thirtie yeeres.
5:6 When Iesus sawe him lie, and knew that he nowe long time had bene diseased, he saide vnto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
5:7 The sicke man answered him, Sir, I haue no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the poole: but while I am comming, another steppeth downe before me.
5:8 Iesus said vnto him, Rise: take vp thy bed, and walke.
5:9 And immediatly the man was made whole, and tooke vp his bed, and walked: and the same day was the Sabbath.
5:10 The Iewes therefore said to him that was made whole, It is the Sabbath day: it is not lawfull for thee to cary thy bed.
5:11 He answered them, He that made me whole, he said vnto me, Take vp thy bed, and walke.
5:12 Then asked they him, What man is that which said vnto thee, Take vp thy bed and walke?
5:13 And he that was healed, knewe not who it was: for Iesus had conueied himselfe away from the multitude that was in that place.
5:14 And after that, Iesus founde him in the Temple, and said vnto him, Beholde, thou art made whole: sinne no more, lest a worse thing come vnto thee.
5:15 The man departed and tolde the Iewes that it was Iesus, which had made him whole.
5:16 And therefore the Iewes did persecute Iesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the Sabbath day.
5:17 But Iesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I worke.
5:18 Therefore the Iewes sought the more to kill him: not onely because he had broken the Sabbath: but said also that God was his Father, and made himselfe equall with God.
5:19 Then answered Iesus, and said vnto them, Verely, verely I say vnto you, The Sonne can doe nothing of himselfe, saue that he seeth the Father doe: for whatsoeuer things he doth, the same things doeth the Sonne in like maner.
5:20 For the Father loueth the Sonne, and sheweth him all things, whatsoeuer he himselfe doeth, and he will shewe him greater workes then these, that ye should marueile.
5:21 For likewise as the Father rayseth vp the dead, and quickeneth them, so the Sonne quickeneth whom he will.
5:22 For the Father iudgeth no man, but hath committed all iudgement vnto the Sonne,
5:23 Because that all men shoulde honour the Sonne, as they honour the Father: he that honoureth not the Sonne, the same honoureth not the Father, which hath sent him.
5:24 Verely, verely I say vnto you, he that heareth my worde, and beleeueth him that sent me, hath euerlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but hath passed from death vnto life.
5:25 Verely, verely I say vnto you, the houre shall come, and now is, when the dead shall heare the voyce of the Sonne of God: and they that heare it, shall liue.
5:26 For as the Father hath life in himselfe, so likewise hath he giuen to the Sonne to haue life in himselfe,
5:27 And hath giuen him power also to execute iudgement, in that he is the Sonne of man.
5:28 Marueile not at this: for the houre shall come, in the which all that are in the graues, shall heare his voyce.
5:29 And they shall come foorth, that haue done good, vnto ye resurrection of life: but they that haue done euil, vnto the resurrection of condemnation.
5:30 I can doe nothing of mine owne selfe: as I heare, I iudge: and my iudgement is iust, because I seeke not mine owne will, but the will of the Father who hath sent me.
5:31 If I should beare witnesse of my selfe, my witnesse were not true.
5:32 There is another that beareth witnesse of me, and I know that the witnesse, which he beareth of me, is true.
5:33 Ye sent vnto Iohn, and he bare witnesse vnto the trueth.
5:34 But I receiue not the record of man: neuerthelesse these things I say, that ye might be saued.
5:35 He was a burning, and a shining candle: and ye would for a season haue reioyced in his light.
5:36 But I haue greater witnesse then the witnesse of Iohn: for the workes which the Father hath giuen me to finish, the same workes that I doe, beare witnesse of me, that the Father sent me.
5:37 And the Father himselfe, which hath sent me, beareth witnesse of me. Ye haue not heard his voyce at any time, neither haue ye seene his shape.
5:38 And his worde haue you not abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye beleeued not.
5:39 Searche the Scriptures: for in them ye thinke to haue eternall life, and they are they which testifie of me.
5:40 But ye will not come to me, that ye might haue life.
5:41 I receiue not the prayse of men.
5:42 But I know you, that ye haue not the loue of God in you.
5:43 I am come in my Fathers Name, and ye receiue me not: if another shall come in his owne name, him will ye receiue.
5:44 How can ye beleeue, which receiue honour one of another, and seeke not the honour that commeth of God alone?
5:45 Doe not thinke that I will accuse you to my Father: there is one that accuseth you, euen Moses, in whom ye trust.
5:46 For had ye beleeued Moses, ye would haue beleeued me: for he wrote of me.
5:47 But if ye beleeue not his writings, how shall ye beleeue my wordes?