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JOHN –The Word Became Flesh • Unit 1: Jesus’ Public Ministry • Lesson 4: Honoring the Son Page 21
John 5:1-24
1 Some time later, there was a religious
gathering of the Jews. Jesus went up to
Jerusalem.
2 In Jerusalem there is a pool with five
porches called Bethesda near the sheep gate.
3 Inside these porches lay many sick people.
Some were blind. Some could not walk. Some
could not move their bodies.
4 (*An angel of the Lord came at certain times
and made the water move. All of them were
waiting for it to move. Whoever got in the
water first after it was moving was healed of
whatever sickness he had.)
5 A man was there who had been sick for
thirty-eight years.
6 Jesus saw him lying there and knew the man
had been sick a long time. Jesus said to him,
"Would you like to be healed?"
7 The sick man said, "Sir, I have no one to put
me in the pool when the water is moving.
While I am coming, another one gets in first."
8 Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your bed
and walk."
9 At once the man was healed and picked up
his bed and walked. This happened on the Day
of Rest.
10 The Jews said to the man who had been
healed, "This is the Day of Rest. It is against
the Law for you to carry your bed."
11 He said to them, "The Man Who healed me
said to me, 'Pick up your bed and walk.'
12 Then the Jews asked him, "What man said
to you, 'Pick up your bed and walk'?"
13 The man who had been healed did not
know Who He was. Jesus had gone away
while many people were there.
14 Later Jesus found the man who had been
healed in the house of God. He said to him,
"Listen! You have been healed. Stop sinning or
something worse will come to you."
15 The man went away and told the Jews that it
was Jesus Who had healed him.
16 Because Jesus did these things on the Day of
Rest, the Jews made it very hard for Him.
17 Jesus said to them, "My Father is still
working all the time so I am working also."
18 The Jews tried all the more to kill Him, not
only because He had worked on the Day of Rest,
but because He had also called God His Own
Father. This made Him the same as God.
19 Then Jesus said to them, "For sure, I tell you,
the Son can do nothing by Himself. He does
what He sees the Father doing. Whatever the
Father does, the Son does also.
20 The Father loves the Son and shows the Son
everything He does. The Father will show Him
greater works than these. They will surprise you.
21 The Father raises up the dead and makes
them live. The Son also gives life to anyone He
chooses.
22 The Father does not say who is guilty. He
gives this to the Son to do.
23 He does this so that all people will honor the
Son as they honor the Father. He who does not
honor the Son does not honor the Father Who
sent Him.
24 "For sure, I tell you, anyone who hears My
Word and puts his trust in Him Who sent Me has
life that lasts forever. He will not be guilty. He
has already passed from death into life.