Christ heals a man at the pool of Bethesda
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📚After this there was a feast✭ of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 📚Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, which in the Hebrew tongue is called Bethesda✭. It has five porticos. 3 📚In these lay a great multitude of infirm people, of blind, lame, and paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water. 4 For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool, and stirred the water. Then, after the stirring of the water, whoever first stepped in was healed of whatever disease he had✭.5 📚✭And a certain man was there who had an infirmity for thirty-eight years. 6 📚✭When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had now been a long time in that condition, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?”
7 📚✭The helpless man answered him, “Sir, when the water is stirred I have no one to put me in the pool. While I am moving, someone else steps down before me”.
8 📚✭Jesus said to him, “Get up. Pick up your cot and walk”.
9 📚And immediately the man was healed, picked up his cot and walked. And that same day was the Sabbath.
10 📚✭Therefore the Jews said to the one who was cured, “It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry a cot”.
11 📚He answered them, “The same man who healed me said to me, ‘Pick up your cot and walk.’ ”
12 📚Then they asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your cot and walk?’”
13 📚✭And the healed man did not know who it was, for a crowd was in that place and Jesus had slipped away secretly. 14 📚✭Afterwards Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are healed. Do not sin any more, or a worse thing may come on you”.
15 📚✭The man left and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him.
Christ reveals who He is
16 📚✭And so the Jews persecuted Jesus and tried to kill him, because he had done these things on the Sabbath.
17 📚✭But Jesus responded to them, “My Father has been working until now, and I have been working”.
18 📚Therefore the Jews tried even more to kill him, because not only had he broken the Sabbath, but also said that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
19 📚✭In response Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly I say✭ to you, the Son can do nothing by himself, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever he does, the Son also does the same things. 20 📚✭For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he does. And he will show him greater works than these, that you may be amazed.
21 📚✭“For just as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, just so the Son gives life to whom he will. 22 📚✭For the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son, 23 📚✭so that all men should honour the Son just as they honour the Father. He who does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent him.
24 📚✭“Truly, truly I say to you, he who hears my word and believes in him who sent me, has everlasting life and will not come into condemnation✭, but has passed from death to life.✭
25 📚✭“Truly, truly I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. 26 📚For just as the Father has life in himself✭, even so he has given to the Son to have life in himself, 27 📚and also has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of man.✭
28 📚✭“Do not be surprised at this, for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear his voice, 29 📚and will come out. Those who have done good will come out for the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, for the resurrection of condemnation.
30 📚✭“I can do nothing by myself. As I hear, I judge. And my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the Father who has sent me.
The evidence of Christ’s deity
31 📚✭“If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true. 32 📚✭There is another who testifies about me. And I know that the testimony which he gives about me is true.
33 📚“You sent to John, and he testified to the truth. 34 📚But I do not receive testimony from man. I say these things that you might be saved. 35 📚He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing for a time to rejoice in his light.✭
36 📚✭“But I have a greater testimony than John’s. For the deeds which the Father has given me to finish, the very deeds that I am doing, testify about me that the Father has sent me.
37 📚✭“And the Father himself, who has sent me, has testified about me. You have not heard his voice at any time, or seen his form. 38 📚✭And you do not have his word dwelling in you. For you do not believe the one whom he has sent.
39 📚“You search the Scriptures,✭ for by them you think you have eternal life. And these are they which testify about me, 40 📚✭and you are not willing to come to me that you might have life.
41 📚✭“I do not receive honour from men. 42 📚✭But I know you, that you do not have God’s love in you.
43 📚“I have come in my Father’s name,✭ and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
44 📚✭“How can you believe, you who receive honour from one another, and do not seek the honour that comes from the only God?