John 5

The Healing at the Pool

When did Jesus go up to Jerusalem? (Verse 1)

What is the description of the pool? (Verse 2-4)

How long had one been there for? (Verse 5)

What did Jesus ask when he saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time? (verse 6)

What did the invalid say? (Verse 7)

When was the man cured? (verse 5-9)

Who did the Jewish leaders harass? (Verse 10)

Who had told the man to pick up his mat? (Verse 11)

Did Jesus hang around so everyone could see He was the one? (Verse 13)

Where did Jesus find the man again? (verse 14)

The Authority of the Son

What did Jesus say when the Jewish leaders began to persecute him? (verse 16-17)

Did the Jewish leaders stop persecuting Jesus? (verse 18)

What does the Son do? (verse 19)

What does the Father show the Son? (Verse 20)

How does the Son give life to whom he is pleased to give it? (verse 21)

Does the Father judge anyone? (verse 22)

Why has the Father entrusted all judgment to the Son? (Verse 23)

Who does not honor the Father? (Verse 23)

Who has crossed over from death to life? (Verse 24)

Who will live? (Verse 25)

Where is life? (verse 26)

Why has the Son of Man been given authority to judge? (Verse 27)

Who will hear his voice? (Verse 28)

Who will rise? (Verse 29)

By himself, can Jesus do anything? (Verse 30)

Who does Jesus seek to please? (Verse 30)

Testimonies About Jesus

Who testifies in Jesus' favor? (Verse 31-37)

What was John? (Verse 35)

What has the Father given Jesus? (Verse 36)

Who has sent Jesus? (Verse 37)

What does Jesus say?

What is said about the Father?

What is said about the Son?

What is said about His Word? 

What is said about the Scriptures?

What is said about Life?

What is said about Glory?

What is said about Love?

What is said about Belief?

Thoughts

Jesus asked him, “Do you want to get well?”

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. 

The Healing at the Pool

5 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals.2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda[a] and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3 Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. [4] [b]5 One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 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?”

7 “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.”

8 Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” 9 At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.

The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, 10 and so the Jewish leaderssaid to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.”

11 But he replied, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’ ”

12 So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?”

13 The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

14 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.” 15 The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.

The Authority of the Son

16 So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him. 17 In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.” 18 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.

19 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. 20 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. 21 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. 22 Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son, 23 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.

24 “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. 25 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. 26 For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. 27 And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man.

28 “Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice 29 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. 30 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.

Testimonies About Jesus

31 “If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true. 32 There is another who testifies in my favor, and I know that his testimony about me is true.

33 “You have sent to John and he has testified to the truth. 34 Not that I accept human testimony; but I mention it that you may be saved. 35 John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you chose for a time to enjoy his light.

36 “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. 37 And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You have never heard his voice nor seen his form, 38 nor does his word dwell in you, for you do not believe the one he sent. 39 You study[c] the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, 40 yet you refuse to come to me to have life.

41 “I do not accept glory from human beings, 42 but I know you. I know that you do not have the love of God in your hearts. 43 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. 44 How can you believe since you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the only God[d]?

45 “But do not think I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom your hopes are set. 46 If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. 47 But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?”

Footnotes:

1. John 5:2 Some manuscripts Bethzatha; other manuscripts Bethsaida
2. John 5:4 Some manuscripts include here, wholly or in part, paralyzed—and they waited for the moving of the waters. 4 From time to time an angel of the Lord would come down and stir up the waters. The first one into the pool after each such disturbance would be cured of whatever disease they had.
3. John 5:39 Or 39 Study
4. John 5:44 Some early manuscripts the Only One