John 5:1-30
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- After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
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- Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
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- In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
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- For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
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- And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
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- When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
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- The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
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- Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
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- And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.
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- The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.
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- He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.
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- Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?
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- And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place.
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- Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.
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- The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole.
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- And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.
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- But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
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- Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
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- Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
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- For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.
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- For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
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- For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:
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- That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
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- Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
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- Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
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- For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;
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- And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.
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- Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
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- And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
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- I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
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