1 Hierna was daar 'n fees van die Jode, en Jesus het opgegaan na Jerusalem.
2 En daar is in Jerusalem by die Skaapspoort 'n bad met vyf pilaargange wat in Hebreeus Bet,sda genoem word.
3 Daarin het 'n groot menigte siekes gelê, blindes en kreupeles en lammes, wat op die roering van die water gewag het.
4 Want 'n engel het op bepaalde tye in die bad neergedaal en die water geroer. Die een wat dan die eerste ingaan n die roering van die water, het gesond geword, aan watter siekte hy ook al gely het.
5 En 'n sekere man was daar, wat agt en dertig jaar aan sy siekte gely het.
6 Toe Jesus hom sien lê, terwyl Hy geweet het dat hy al 'n lang tyd siek was, sê Hy vir hom: Wil jy gesond word?
7 Die sieke antwoord Hom: Here, ek het niemand om my in die bad te sit as die water geroer word nie; en onderwyl ek kom, gaan 'n ander een voor my in.
8 Jesus sê vir hom: Staan op, neem jou bed op en loop.
9 En dadelik het die man gesond geword en sy bed opgeneem en geloop. En daardie dag was dit sabbat.
10 Die Jode sê toe vir hom wat genees was: Dit is sabbat; dit is jou nie geoorloof om jou bed te dra nie.
11 Hy antwoord hulle: Hy wat my gesond gemaak het, Hy het vir my gesê: Neem jou bed op en loop.
12 Toe vra hulle hom: Wie is die man wat vir jou gesê het: Neem jou bed op en loop?
13 Maar hy wat gesond geword het, het nie geweet wie dit was nie; want Jesus het Hom verwyder, omdat daar 'n skare op die plek was.
14 Daarna het Jesus hom in die tempel gekry en vir hom gesê: Kyk, jy het gesond geword; moenie meer sondig nie, sodat daar nie iets ergers met jou gebeur nie.
15 Die man het gegaan en aan die Jode vertel dat dit Jesus was wat hom gesond gemaak het.
16 En hieroor het die Jode Jesus vervolg en probeer om Hom dood te maak, omdat Hy dit op die sabbat gedoen het.
17 En Jesus het hulle geantwoord: My Vader werk tot nou toe, en Ek werk ook.
18 Hieroor het die Jode toe nog meer probeer om Hom dood te maak, omdat Hy nie alleen die sabbat gebreek het nie, maar ook God sy eie Vader genoem het en Hom met God gelykgestel het.
19 Jesus het toe geantwoord en vir hulle gesê: Voorwaar, voorwaar Ek sê vir julle, die Seun kan niks uit Homself doen tensy Hy die Vader dit sien doen nie. Want alles wat Hy doen, dit doen die Seun ook net so.
20 Want die Vader het die Seun lief en toon Hom alles wat Hy self doen. En groter werke as hierdie sal Hy Hom toon, sodat julle verwonderd kan wees.
21 Want soos die Vader die dode opwek en lewend maak, so maak ook die Seun lewend wie Hy wil.
22 Want die Vader oordeel ook niemand nie, maar het die hele oordeel aan die Seun gegee,
23 sodat almal die Seun kan eer net soos hulle die Vader eer. Wie die Seun nie eer nie, eer nie die Vader wat Hom gestuur het nie.
24 Voorwaar, voorwaar Ek sê vir julle, wie my woord hoor en Hom glo wat My gestuur het, het die ewige lewe en kom nie in die oordeel nie, maar het oorgegaan uit die dood in die lewe.
25 Voorwaar, voorwaar Ek sê vir julle, daar kom 'n uur, en dit is nou, wanneer die dode die stem van die Seun van God sal hoor; en die wat dit gehoor het, sal lewe.
26 Want soos die Vader lewe het in Homself, so het Hy aan die Seun ook gegee om lewe in Homself te hê.
27 En Hy het Hom mag gegee om ook te oordeel, omdat Hy die Seun van die mens is.
28 Moenie julle hieroor verwonder nie. Want daar kom 'n uur wanneer almal wat in die grafte is, sy stem sal hoor
29 en sal uitgaan, die wat goed gedoen het, tot die opstanding van die lewe, en die wat kwaad gedoen het, tot die opstanding van die veroordeling.
30 Ek kan uit Myself niks doen nie. Soos Ek hoor, oordeel Ek; en my oordeel is regverdig, omdat Ek nie my wil soek nie, maar die wil van die Vader wat My gestuur het.
31 As Ek van Myself getuig, is my getuienis nie waar nie.
32 Daar is 'n ander Een wat van My getuig, en Ek weet dat die getuienis wat Hy van My getuig, waar is.
33 Julle het na Johannes gestuur, en hy het vir die waarheid getuig.
34 Maar Ek neem die getuienis van 'n mens nie aan nie; maar Ek sê dit, dat julle gered kan word.
35 Hy was die lamp wat brand en skyn, en julle was gewillig om julle vir 'n tyd in sy lig te verbly.
36 Maar Ek het 'n groter getuienis as die van Johannes, want die werke wat die Vader My gegee het om te volbring, die werke self wat Ek doen, getuig van My dat die Vader My gestuur het.
37 En die Vader wat My gestuur het, Hy het van My getuig. Julle het nog nooit sy stem gehoor of sy gedaante gesien nie.
38 En julle het sy woord nie as iets blywends in julle nie, omdat julle Hom wat Hy gestuur het, nie glo nie.
39 Julle ondersoek die Skrifte, omdat julle meen dat julle daarin die ewige lewe het; en dit is die wat van My getuig.
40 En julle wil nie na My kom om die lewe te hê nie.
41 Eer neem Ek van die mense nie aan nie.
42 Maar Ek ken julle, dat julle die liefde van God in julle nie het nie.
43 Ek het gekom in die Naam van my Vader, en julle neem My nie aan nie. As 'n ander een in sy eie naam kom, hom sal julle aanneem.
44 Hoe kan julle glo wat van mekaar eer aanneem, en die eer wat van die enige God kom, soek julle nie?
45 Moenie dink dat Ek julle by die Vader sal beskuldig nie. Daar is een wat julle beskuldig -- Moses op wie julle gehoop het.
46 Maar as julle Moses geglo het, sou julle My glo, want hy het van My geskrywe.
47 En as julle sy geskrifte nie glo nie, hoe sal julle my woorde glo?
1 After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 Now in Jerusalem near the sheep-market there is a public bath which in Hebrew is named Beth-zatha. It has five doorways.
3 In these doorways there were a great number of people with different diseases: some unable to see, some without the power of walking, some with wasted bodies.
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5 One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.
6 When Jesus saw him there on the floor it was clear to him that he had been now a long time in that condition, and so he said to the man, Is it your desire to get well?
7 The ill man said in answer, Sir, I have nobody to put me into the bath when the water is moving; and while I am on the way down some other person gets in before me.
8 Jesus said to him, Get up, take your bed and go.
9 And the man became well straight away, and took up his bed and went. Now that day was the Sabbath.
10 So the Jews said to the man who had been made well, It is the Sabbath; and it is against the law for you to take up your bed.
11 He said to them, But he who made me well, said to me, Take up your bed and go.
12 Then they put to him the question: Who is the man who said to you, Take it up and go?
13 Now he who had been made well had no knowledge who it was, Jesus having gone away because of the number of people who were in that place.
14 After a time Jesus came across him in the Temple and said to him, See, you are well and strong; do no more sin for fear a worse thing comes to you.
15 The man went away and said to the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
16 And for this reason the Jews were turned against Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.
17 But his answer was: My Father is still working even now, and so I am working.
18 For this cause the Jews had an even greater desire to put Jesus to death, because not only did he not keep the Sabbath but he said God was his Father, so making himself equal with God.
19 So Jesus made answer and said, Truly I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything himself; he is able to do only what he sees the Father doing; whatever the Father does the Son does it in the same way.
20 For the Father has love for the Son and lets him see everything which he does: and he will let him see greater works than these so that you may be full of wonder.
21 In the same way, as the Father gives life to the dead, even so the Son gives life to those to whom he is pleased to give it.
22 The Father is not the judge of men, but he has given all decisions into the hands of the Son;
23 So that all men may give honour to the Son even as they give honour to the Father. He who gives no honour to the Son gives no honour to the Father who sent him.
24 Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death into life.
25 Truly I say to you, The time is coming, it has even now come, when the voice of the Son of God will come to the ears of the dead, and those hearing it will have life.
26 For even as the Father has life in himself, so he has given to the Son to have life in himself.
27 And he has given him authority to be judge because he is the Son of man.
28 Do not be surprised at this: for the time is coming when his voice will come to all who are in the place of the dead,
29 And they will come out; those who have done good, into the new life; and those who have done evil, to be judged.
30 Of myself I am unable to do anything: as the voice comes to me so I give a decision: and my decision is right because I have no desire to do what is pleasing to myself, but only what is pleasing to him who sent me.
31 If I gave witness about myself, my witness would not be true.
32 There is another who gives witness about me and I am certain that the witness he gives about me is true.
33 You sent to John and he gave true witness.
34 But I have no need of a man's witness: I only say these things so that you may have salvation.
35 He was a burning and shining light, and for a time you were ready to be happy in his light.
36 But the witness which I have is greater than that of John: the work which the Father has given me to do, the very work which I am now doing, is a witness that the Father has sent me.
37 And the Father himself who sent me has given witness about me. Not one of you has ever given ear to his voice; his form you have not seen.
38 And you have not kept his word in your hearts, because you have not faith in him whom he has sent.
39 You make search in the holy Writings, in the belief that through them you get eternal life; and it is those Writings which give witness about me.
40 And still you have no desire to come to me so that you may have life.
41 I do not take honour from men;
42 But I have knowledge of you that you have no love for God in your hearts.
43 I have come in my Father's name, and your hearts are not open to me. If another comes with no other authority but himself, you will give him your approval.
44 How is it possible for you to have faith while you take honour one from another and have no desire for the honour which comes from the only God?
45 Put out of your minds the thought that I will say things against you to the Father: the one who says things against you is Moses, on whom you put your hopes.
46 If you had belief in Moses you would have belief in me; for his writings are about me.
47 If you have no belief in his writings, how will you have belief in my words?