SOME TIME LATER, JESUS WENT UP TO JERUSALEM FOR ONE OF THE JEWISH FESTIVALS.
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NOW THERE IS IN JERUSALEM NEAR THE SHEEP GATE A POOL, WHICH IN ARAMAIC IS CALLED BETHESDA AND WHICH IS SURROUNDED BY FIVE COVERED COLONNADES.
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HERE A GREAT NUMBER OF DISABLED PEOPLE USED TO LIE--THE BLIND, THE LAME, THE PARALYZED.
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ONE WHO WAS THERE HAD BEEN AN INVALID FOR THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS.
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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?'
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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.'
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THEN JESUS SAID TO HIM, 'GET UP! PICK UP YOUR MAT AND WALK.'
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AT ONCE THE MAN WAS CURED; HE PICKED UP HIS MAT AND WALKED. THE DAY ON WHICH THIS TOOK PLACE WAS A SABBATH,
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AND SO THE JEWISH LEADERS SAID TO THE MAN WHO HAD BEEN HEALED, 'IT IS THE SABBATH; THE LAW FORBIDS YOU TO CARRY YOUR MAT.'
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BUT HE REPLIED, 'THE MAN WHO MADE ME WELL SAID TO ME, 'PICK UP YOUR MAT AND WALK.' '
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SO THEY ASKED HIM, 'WHO IS THIS FELLOW WHO TOLD YOU TO PICK IT UP AND WALK?'
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THE MAN WHO WAS HEALED HAD NO IDEA WHO IT WAS, FOR JESUS HAD SLIPPED AWAY INTO THE CROWD THAT WAS THERE.
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LATER JESUS FOUND HIM AT THE TEMPLE AND SAID TO HIM, 'SEE, YOU ARE WELL AGAIN. STOP SINNING OR SOMETHING WORSE MAY HAPPEN TO YOU.'
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THE MAN WENT AWAY AND TOLD THE JEWISH LEADERS THAT IT WAS JESUS WHO HAD MADE HIM WELL.
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SO, BECAUSE JESUS WAS DOING THESE THINGS ON THE SABBATH, THE JEWISH LEADERS BEGAN TO PERSECUTE HIM.
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IN HIS DEFENSE JESUS SAID TO THEM, 'MY FATHER IS ALWAYS AT HIS WORK TO THIS VERY DAY, AND I TOO AM WORKING.'
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FOR THIS REASON THEY TRIED ALL THE MORE TO KILL HIM; NOT ONLY WAS HE BREAKING THE SABBATH, BUT HE WAS EVEN CALLING GOD HIS OWN FATHER, MAKING HIMSELF EQUAL WITH GOD.
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JESUS GAVE THEM THIS ANSWER: 'VERY TRULY I TELL YOU, THE SON CAN DO NOTHING BY HIMSELF; HE CAN DO ONLY WHAT HE SEES HIS FATHER DOING, BECAUSE WHATEVER THE FATHER DOES THE SON ALSO DOES.
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FOR THE FATHER LOVES THE SON AND SHOWS HIM ALL HE DOES. YES, AND HE WILL SHOW HIM EVEN GREATER WORKS THAN THESE, SO THAT YOU WILL BE AMAZED.
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FOR JUST AS THE FATHER RAISES THE DEAD AND GIVES THEM LIFE, EVEN SO THE SON GIVES LIFE TO WHOM HE IS PLEASED TO GIVE IT.
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MOREOVER, THE FATHER JUDGES NO ONE, BUT HAS ENTRUSTED ALL JUDGMENT TO THE SON,
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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.
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VERY TRULY I TELL YOU, WHOEVER HEARS MY WORD AND BELIEVES HIM WHO SENT ME HAS ETERNAL LIFE AND WILL NOT BE JUDGED BUT HAS CROSSED OVER FROM DEATH TO LIFE.
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VERY TRULY I TELL YOU, A TIME IS COMING AND HAS NOW COME WHEN THE DEAD WILL HEAR THE VOICE OF THE SON OF GOD AND THOSE WHO HEAR WILL LIVE.
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FOR AS THE FATHER HAS LIFE IN HIMSELF, SO HE HAS GRANTED THE SON ALSO TO HAVE LIFE IN HIMSELF.
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AND HE HAS GIVEN HIM AUTHORITY TO JUDGE BECAUSE HE IS THE SON OF MAN.
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DO NOT BE AMAZED AT THIS, FOR A TIME IS COMING WHEN ALL WHO ARE IN THEIR GRAVES WILL HEAR HIS VOICE
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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.
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BY MYSELF I CAN DO NOTHING; I JUDGE ONLY AS I HEAR, AND MY JUDGMENT IS JUST, FOR I SEEK NOT TO PLEASE MYSELF BUT HIM WHO SENT ME.
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IF I TESTIFY ABOUT MYSELF, MY TESTIMONY IS NOT TRUE.
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THERE IS ANOTHER WHO TESTIFIES IN MY FAVOR, AND I KNOW THAT HIS TESTIMONY ABOUT ME IS TRUE.
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YOU HAVE SENT TO JOHN AND HE HAS TESTIFIED TO THE TRUTH.
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NOT THAT I ACCEPT HUMAN TESTIMONY; BUT I MENTION IT THAT YOU MAY BE SAVED.
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JOHN WAS A LAMP THAT BURNED AND GAVE LIGHT, AND YOU CHOSE FOR A TIME TO ENJOY HIS LIGHT.
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I HAVE TESTIMONY WEIGHTIER THAN THAT OF JOHN. FOR THE WORKS THAT THE FATHER HAS GIVEN ME TO FINISH--THE VERY WORKS THAT I AM DOING--TESTIFY THAT THE FATHER HAS SENT ME.
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AND THE FATHER WHO SENT ME HAS HIMSELF TESTIFIED CONCERNING ME. YOU HAVE NEVER HEARD HIS VOICE NOR SEEN HIS FORM,
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NOR DOES HIS WORD DWELL IN YOU, FOR YOU DO NOT BELIEVE THE ONE HE SENT.
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YOU STUDY THE SCRIPTURES DILIGENTLY BECAUSE YOU THINK THAT IN THEM YOU HAVE ETERNAL LIFE. THESE ARE THE VERY SCRIPTURES THAT TESTIFY ABOUT ME,
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YET YOU REFUSE TO COME TO ME TO HAVE LIFE.
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I DO NOT ACCEPT GLORY FROM HUMAN BEINGS,
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BUT I KNOW YOU. I KNOW THAT YOU DO NOT HAVE THE LOVE OF GOD IN YOUR HEARTS.
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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.
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HOW CAN YOU BELIEVE SINCE YOU ACCEPT GLORY FROM ONE ANOTHER BUT DO NOT SEEK THE GLORY THAT COMES FROM THE ONLY GOD?
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BUT DO NOT THINK I WILL ACCUSE YOU BEFORE THE FATHER. YOUR ACCUSER IS MOSES, ON WHOM YOUR HOPES ARE SET.
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IF YOU BELIEVED MOSES, YOU WOULD BELIEVE ME, FOR HE WROTE ABOUT ME.
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BUT SINCE YOU DO NOT BELIEVE WHAT HE WROTE, HOW ARE YOU GOING TO BELIEVE WHAT I SAY?'