5:1 After this ¹  there was a Jewish feast, ²  and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ³  5:2 Now there is ⁴  in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate ⁵  a pool called Bethzatha ⁶  in Aramaic, ⁷  which has five covered walkways. ⁸  5:3 A great number of sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed people were lying in these walkways. 5:4 [[EMPTY]] ⁹  5:5 Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years. ¹⁰  5:6 When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized ¹¹  that the man ¹²  had been disabled a long time already, he said to him, “Do you want to become well?” 5:7 The sick man answered him, “Sir, ¹³  I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get into the water, ¹⁴  someone else ¹⁵  goes down there ¹⁶  before me.” 5:8 Jesus said to him, “Stand up! Pick up your mat ¹⁷  and walk.” 5:9 Immediately the man was healed, ¹⁸  and he picked up his mat ¹⁹  and started walking. (Now that day was a Sabbath.) ²⁰ 

5:10 So the Jewish leaders ²¹  said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat.” ²²  5:11 But he answered them, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat ²³  and walk.’” 5:12 They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your mat ²⁴  and walk’?” ²⁵  5:13 But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped out, since there was a crowd in that place.

5:14 After this Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “Look, you have become well. Don’t sin any more, ²⁶  lest anything worse happen to you.” 5:15 The man went away and informed the Jewish leaders ²⁷  that Jesus was the one who had made him well.

5:16 Now because Jesus was doing these things ²⁸  on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders ²⁹  began persecuting ³⁰  him. 5:17 So he ³¹  told ³²  them, “My Father is working until now, and I too am working.” ³³  5:18 For this reason the Jewish leaders ³⁴  were trying even harder to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.

5:19 So Jesus answered them, ³⁵  “I tell you the solemn truth, ³⁶  the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, ³⁷  but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father ³⁸  does, the Son does likewise. ³⁹  5:20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he does, and will show him greater deeds than these, so that you will be amazed. 5:21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, ⁴⁰  so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes. ⁴¹  5:22 Furthermore, the Father does not judge ⁴²  anyone, but has assigned ⁴³  all judgment to the Son, 5:23 so that all people ⁴⁴  will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

5:24 “I tell you the solemn truth, ⁴⁵  the one who hears ⁴⁶  my message ⁴⁷  and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, ⁴⁸  but has crossed over from death to life. 5:25 I tell you the solemn truth, ⁴⁹  a time ⁵⁰  is coming – and is now here – when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. 5:26 For just as the Father has life in himself, thus he has granted the Son to have life in himself, 5:27 and he has granted the Son ⁵¹  authority to execute judgment, ⁵²  because he is the Son of Man.

5:28 “Do not be amazed at this, because a time ⁵³  is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice 5:29 and will come out – the ones who have done what is good to the resurrection resulting in life, and the ones who have done what is evil to the resurrection resulting in condemnation. ⁵⁴  5:30 I can do nothing on my own initiative. ⁵⁵  Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, ⁵⁶  because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me. ⁵⁷ 

5:31 “If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true. 5:32 There is another ⁵⁸  who testifies about me, and I know the testimony he testifies about me is true. 5:33 You have sent to John, ⁵⁹  and he has testified to the truth. 5:34 (I do not accept ⁶⁰  human testimony, but I say this so that you may be saved.) 5:35 He was a lamp that was burning and shining, ⁶¹  and you wanted to rejoice greatly for a short time ⁶²  in his light.

5:36 “But I have a testimony greater than that from John. For the deeds ⁶³  that the Father has assigned me to complete – the deeds ⁶⁴  I am now doing – testify about me that the Father has sent me. 5:37 And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You people ⁶⁵  have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time, ⁶⁶  5:38 nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent. 5:39 You study the scriptures thoroughly ⁶⁷  because you think in them you possess eternal life, ⁶⁸  and it is these same scriptures ⁶⁹  that testify about me, 5:40 but you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.

5:41 “I do not accept ⁷⁰  praise ⁷¹  from people, ⁷²  5:42 but I know you, that you do not have the love of God ⁷³  within you. 5:43 I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept ⁷⁴  me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept ⁷⁵  him. 5:44 How can you believe, if you accept praise ⁷⁶  from one another and don’t seek the praise ⁷⁷  that comes from the only God? ⁷⁸ 

5:45 “Do not suppose that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope. ⁷⁹  5:46 If ⁸⁰  you believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me. 5:47 But if you do not believe what Moses ⁸¹  wrote, how will you believe my words?”

6:1 After this ⁸²  Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (also called the Sea of Tiberias). ⁸³  6:2 A large crowd was following him because they were observing the miraculous signs he was performing on the sick. 6:3 So Jesus went on up the mountainside ⁸⁴  and sat down there with his disciples. 6:4 (Now the Jewish feast of the Passover ⁸⁵  was near.) ⁸⁶  6:5 Then Jesus, when he looked up ⁸⁷  and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, said to Philip, “Where can we buy bread so that these people may eat?” 6:6 (Now Jesus ⁸⁸  said this to test him, for he knew what he was going to do.) ⁸⁹  6:7 Philip replied, ⁹⁰  “Two hundred silver coins worth ⁹¹  of bread would not be enough for them, for each one to get a little.” 6:8 One of Jesus’ disciples, ⁹²  Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him, 6:9 “Here is a boy who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what good ⁹³  are these for so many people?”

6:10 Jesus said, “Have ⁹⁴  the people sit down.” (Now there was a lot of grass in that place.) ⁹⁵  So the men ⁹⁶  sat down, about five thousand in number. 6:11 Then Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed the bread to those who were seated. He then did the same with the fish, ⁹⁷  as much as they wanted. 6:12 When they were all satisfied, Jesus ⁹⁸  said to his disciples, “Gather up the broken pieces that are left over, so that nothing is wasted.” 6:13 So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves ⁹⁹  left over by the people who had eaten.

6:14 Now when the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus ¹⁰⁰  performed, they began to say to one another, “This is certainly the Prophet ¹⁰¹  who is to come into the world.” ¹⁰²  6:15 Then Jesus, because he knew they were going to come and seize him by force to make him king, withdrew again up the mountainside alone. ¹⁰³ 

6:16 Now when evening came, his disciples went down to the lake, ¹⁰⁴  6:17 got into a boat, and started to cross the lake ¹⁰⁵  to Capernaum. ¹⁰⁶  (It had already become dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.) ¹⁰⁷  6:18 By now a strong wind was blowing and the sea was getting rough. 6:19 Then, when they had rowed about three or four miles, ¹⁰⁸  they caught sight of Jesus walking on the lake, ¹⁰⁹  approaching the boat, and they were frightened. 6:20 But he said to them, “It is I. Do not be afraid.” 6:21 Then they wanted to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat came to the land where they had been heading.

6:22 The next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the lake ¹¹⁰  realized that only one small boat ¹¹¹  had been there, and that Jesus had not boarded ¹¹²  it with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone. 6:23 But some boats from Tiberias ¹¹³  came to shore ¹¹⁴  near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks. ¹¹⁵  6:24 So when the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats ¹¹⁶  and came to Capernaum ¹¹⁷  looking for Jesus.

6:25 When they found him on the other side of the lake, ¹¹⁸  they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?” ¹¹⁹  6:26 Jesus replied, ¹²⁰  “I tell you the solemn truth, ¹²¹  you are looking for me not because you saw miraculous signs, but because you ate all the loaves of bread you wanted. ¹²²  6:27 Do not work for the food that disappears, ¹²³  but for the food that remains to eternal life – the food ¹²⁴  which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has put his seal of approval on him.” ¹²⁵ 

6:28 So then they said to him, “What must we do to accomplish the deeds ¹²⁶  God requires?” ¹²⁷  6:29 Jesus replied, ¹²⁸  “This is the deed ¹²⁹  God requires ¹³⁰  – to believe in the one whom he ¹³¹  sent.” 6:30 So they said to him, “Then what miraculous sign will you perform, so that we may see it and believe you? What will you do? 6:31 Our ancestors ¹³²  ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” ¹³³ 

6:32 Then Jesus told them, “I tell you the solemn truth, ¹³⁴  it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but my Father is giving you the true bread from heaven. 6:33 For the bread of God is the one who ¹³⁵  comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” 6:34 So they said to him, “Sir, ¹³⁶  give us this bread all the time!”

6:35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. The one who comes to me will never go hungry, and the one who believes in me will never be thirsty. ¹³⁷  6:36 But I told you ¹³⁸  that you have seen me ¹³⁹  and still do not believe. 6:37 Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never send away. ¹⁴⁰  6:38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me. 6:39 Now this is the will of the one who sent me – that I should not lose one person of every one he has given me, but raise them all up ¹⁴¹  at the last day. 6:40 For this is the will of my Father – for everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him to have eternal life, and I will raise him up ¹⁴²  at the last day.” ¹⁴³ 

6:41 Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus ¹⁴⁴  began complaining about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven,” 6:42 and they said, “Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” 6:43 Jesus replied, ¹⁴⁵  “Do not complain about me to one another. ¹⁴⁶  6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, ¹⁴⁷  and I will raise him up at the last day. 6:45 It is written in the prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ ¹⁴⁸  Everyone who hears and learns from the Father ¹⁴⁹  comes to me. 6:46 (Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God – he ¹⁵⁰  has seen the Father.) ¹⁵¹  6:47 I tell you the solemn truth, ¹⁵²  the one who believes ¹⁵³  has eternal life. ¹⁵⁴  6:48 I am the bread of life. ¹⁵⁵  6:49 Your ancestors ¹⁵⁶  ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 6:50 This ¹⁵⁷  is the bread that has come down from heaven, so that a person ¹⁵⁸  may eat from it and not die. 6:51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread he will live forever. The bread ¹⁵⁹  that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

6:52 Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus ¹⁶⁰  began to argue with one another, ¹⁶¹  “How can this man ¹⁶²  give us his flesh to eat?” 6:53 Jesus said to them, “I tell you the solemn truth, ¹⁶³  unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, ¹⁶⁴  you have no life ¹⁶⁵  in yourselves. 6:54 The one who eats ¹⁶⁶  my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. ¹⁶⁷  6:55 For my flesh is true ¹⁶⁸  food, and my blood is true ¹⁶⁹  drink. 6:56 The one who eats ¹⁷⁰  my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me, and I in him. ¹⁷¹  6:57 Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes ¹⁷²  me will live because of me. 6:58 This ¹⁷³  is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread your ancestors ¹⁷⁴  ate, but then later died. ¹⁷⁵  The one who eats ¹⁷⁶  this bread will live forever.”

6:59 Jesus ¹⁷⁷  said these things while he was teaching in the synagogue ¹⁷⁸  in Capernaum. ¹⁷⁹  6:60 Then many of his disciples, when they heard these things, ¹⁸⁰  said, “This is a difficult ¹⁸¹  saying! ¹⁸²  Who can understand it?” ¹⁸³  6:61 When Jesus was aware ¹⁸⁴  that his disciples were complaining ¹⁸⁵  about this, he said to them, “Does this cause you to be offended? ¹⁸⁶  6:62 Then what if you see the Son of Man ascending where he was before? ¹⁸⁷  6:63 The Spirit is the one who gives life; human nature is of no help! ¹⁸⁸  The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. ¹⁸⁹  6:64 But there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus had already known from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.) ¹⁹⁰  6:65 So Jesus added, ¹⁹¹  “Because of this I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has allowed him to come.” ¹⁹² 

6:66 After this many of his disciples quit following him ¹⁹³  and did not accompany him ¹⁹⁴  any longer. 6:67 So Jesus said to the twelve, “You don’t want to go away too, do you?” ¹⁹⁵  6:68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life. 6:69 We ¹⁹⁶  have come to believe and to know ¹⁹⁷  that you are the Holy One of God!” ¹⁹⁸  6:70 Jesus replied, ¹⁹⁹  “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is the devil?” ²⁰⁰  6:71 (Now he said this about Judas son of Simon Iscariot, ²⁰¹  for Judas, ²⁰²  one of the twelve, was going to betray him.) ²⁰³ 

7:1 After this ²⁰⁴  Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. ²⁰⁵  He ²⁰⁶  stayed out of Judea ²⁰⁷  because the Jewish leaders ²⁰⁸  wanted ²⁰⁹  to kill him. 7:2 Now the Jewish feast of Tabernacles ²¹⁰  was near. ²¹¹  7:3 So Jesus’ brothers ²¹²  advised him, “Leave here and go to Judea so your disciples may see your miracles that you are performing. ²¹³  7:4 For no one who seeks to make a reputation for himself ²¹⁴  does anything in secret. ²¹⁵  If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.” 7:5 (For not even his own brothers believed in him.) ²¹⁶ 

7:6 So Jesus replied, ²¹⁷  “My time ²¹⁸  has not yet arrived, ²¹⁹  but you are ready at any opportunity! ²²⁰  7:7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil. 7:8 You go up ²²¹  to the feast yourselves. I am not going up to this feast ²²²  because my time ²²³  has not yet fully arrived.” ²²⁴  7:9 When he had said this, he remained in Galilee.

7:10 But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then Jesus ²²⁵  himself also went up, not openly but in secret. 7:11 So the Jewish leaders ²²⁶  were looking for him at the feast, asking, “Where is he?” ²²⁷  7:12 There was ²²⁸  a lot of grumbling ²²⁹  about him among the crowds. ²³⁰  Some were saying, “He is a good man,” but others, “He deceives the common people.” ²³¹  7:13 However, no one spoke openly about him for fear of the Jewish leaders. ²³² 

7:14 When the feast was half over, Jesus went up to the temple courts ²³³  and began to teach. ²³⁴  7:15 Then the Jewish leaders ²³⁵  were astonished ²³⁶  and said, “How does this man know so much when he has never had formal instruction?” ²³⁷  7:16 So Jesus replied, ²³⁸  “My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me. ²³⁹  7:17 If anyone wants to do God’s will, ²⁴⁰  he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority. ²⁴¹  7:18 The person who speaks on his own authority ²⁴²  desires ²⁴³  to receive honor ²⁴⁴  for himself; the one who desires ²⁴⁵  the honor ²⁴⁶  of the one who sent him is a man of integrity, ²⁴⁷  and there is no unrighteousness in him. 7:19 Hasn’t Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps ²⁴⁸  the law! Why do you want ²⁴⁹  to kill me?”

7:20 The crowd ²⁵⁰  answered, “You’re possessed by a demon! ²⁵¹  Who is trying to kill you?” ²⁵²  7:21 Jesus replied, ²⁵³  “I performed one miracle ²⁵⁴  and you are all amazed. ²⁵⁵  7:22 However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision ²⁵⁶  (not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child ²⁵⁷  on the Sabbath. 7:23 But if a male child ²⁵⁸  is circumcised ²⁵⁹  on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, ²⁶⁰  why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well ²⁶¹  on the Sabbath? 7:24 Do not judge according to external appearance, ²⁶²  but judge with proper ²⁶³  judgment.”

7:25 Then some of the residents of Jerusalem ²⁶⁴  began to say, “Isn’t this the man ²⁶⁵  they are trying ²⁶⁶  to kill? 7:26 Yet here he is, speaking publicly, ²⁶⁷  and they are saying nothing to him. ²⁶⁸  Do the rulers really know that this man ²⁶⁹  is the Christ? ²⁷⁰  7:27 But we know where this man ²⁷¹  comes from. ²⁷²  Whenever the Christ ²⁷³  comes, no one will know where he comes from.” ²⁷⁴ 

7:28 Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts, ²⁷⁵  cried out, ²⁷⁶  “You both know me and know where I come from! ²⁷⁷  And I have not come on my own initiative, ²⁷⁸  but the one who sent me ²⁷⁹  is true. You do not know him, ²⁸⁰  7:29 but ²⁸¹  I know him, because I have come from him ²⁸²  and he ²⁸³  sent me.”

7:30 So then they tried to seize Jesus, ²⁸⁴  but no one laid a hand on him, because his time ²⁸⁵  had not yet come. 7:31 Yet many of the crowd ²⁸⁶  believed in him and said, “Whenever the Christ ²⁸⁷  comes, he won’t perform more miraculous signs than this man did, will he?” ²⁸⁸ 

7:32 The Pharisees ²⁸⁹  heard the crowd ²⁹⁰  murmuring these things about Jesus, ²⁹¹  so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers ²⁹²  to arrest him. ²⁹³  7:33 Then Jesus said, “I will be with you for only a little while longer, ²⁹⁴  and then ²⁹⁵  I am going to the one who sent me. 7:34 You will look for me ²⁹⁶  but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come.”

7:35 Then the Jewish leaders ²⁹⁷  said to one another, “Where is he ²⁹⁸  going to go that we cannot find him? ²⁹⁹  He is not going to go to the Jewish people dispersed ³⁰⁰  among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he? ³⁰¹  7:36 What did he mean by saying, ³⁰²  ‘You will look for me ³⁰³  but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come’?”

7:37 On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, ³⁰⁴  Jesus stood up and shouted out, ³⁰⁵  “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and 7:38 let the one who believes in me drink. ³⁰⁶  Just as the scripture says, ‘From within him ³⁰⁷  will flow rivers of living water.’” ³⁰⁸  7:39 (Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, ³⁰⁹  because Jesus was not yet glorified.) ³¹⁰ 

7:40 When they heard these words, some of the crowd ³¹¹  began to say, “This really ³¹²  is the Prophet!” ³¹³  7:41 Others said, “This is the Christ!” ³¹⁴  But still others said, “No, ³¹⁵  for the Christ doesn’t come from Galilee, does he? ³¹⁶  7:42 Don’t the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant ³¹⁷  of David ³¹⁸  and comes from Bethlehem, ³¹⁹  the village where David lived?” ³²⁰  7:43 So there was a division in the crowd ³²¹  because of Jesus. ³²²  7:44 Some of them were wanting to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him. ³²³ 

7:45 Then the officers ³²⁴  returned ³²⁵  to the chief priests and Pharisees, ³²⁶  who said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him back with you?” ³²⁷  7:46 The officers replied, “No one ever spoke like this man!” 7:47 Then the Pharisees answered, ³²⁸  “You haven’t been deceived too, have you? ³²⁹  7:48 None of the rulers ³³⁰  or the Pharisees have believed in him, have they? ³³¹  7:49 But this rabble ³³²  who do not know the law are accursed!”

7:50 Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus ³³³  before and who was one of the rulers, ³³⁴  said, ³³⁵  7:51 “Our law doesn’t condemn ³³⁶  a man unless it first hears from him and learns ³³⁷  what he is doing, does it?” ³³⁸  7:52 They replied, ³³⁹  “You aren’t from Galilee too, are you? ³⁴⁰  Investigate carefully and you will see that no prophet ³⁴¹  comes from Galilee!”

7:53 ³⁴² 

[[And each one departed to his own house.