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.4 []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?

1 Post hc erat dies festus Judorum, et ascendit Jesus Jerosolymam. 2 Est autem Jerosolymis probatica piscina, qu cognominatur hebraice Bethsaida, quinque porticus habens. 3 In his jacebat multitudo magna languentium, ccorum, claudorum, aridorum, exspectantium aqu motum. 4 Angelus autem Domini descendebat secundum tempus in piscinam, et movebatur aqua. Et qui prior descendisset in piscinam post motionem aqu, sanus fiebat a quacumque detinebatur infirmitate. 5 Erat autem quidam homo ibi triginta et octo annos habens in infirmitate sua. 6 Hunc autem cum vidisset Jesus jacentem, et cognovisset quia jam multum tempus haberet, dicit ei : Vis sanus fieri ? 7 Respondit ei languidus : Domine, hominem non habeo, ut, cum turbata fuerit aqua, mittat me in piscinam : dum venio enim ego, alius ante me descendit. 8 Dicit ei Jesus : Surge, tolle grabatum tuum et ambula. 9 Et statim sanus factus est homo ille : et sustulit grabatum suum, et ambulabat. Erat autem sabbatum in die illo.10 Dicebant ergo Judi illi qui sanatus fuerat : Sabbatum est, non licet tibi tollere grabatum tuum. 11 Respondit eis : Qui me sanum fecit, ille mihi dixit : Tolle grabatum tuum et ambula. 12 Interrogaverunt ergo eum : Quis est ille homo qui dixit tibi : Tolle grabatum tuum et ambula ? 13 Is autem qui sanus fuerat effectus, nesciebat quis esset. Jesus enim declinavit a turba constituta in loco. 14 Postea invenit eum Jesus in templo, et dixit illi : Ecce sanus factus es ; jam noli peccare, ne deterius tibi aliquid contingat. 15 Abiit ille homo, et nuntiavit Judis quia Jesus esset, qui fecit eum sanum. 16 Propterea persequebantur Judi Jesum, quia hc faciebat in sabbato. 17 Jesus autem respondit eis : Pater meus usque modo operatur, et ego operor. 18 Propterea ergo magis qurebant eum Judi interficere : quia non solum solvebat sabbatum, sed et patrem suum dicebat Deum, qualem se faciens Deo.Respondit itaque Jesus, et dixit eis : 19 Amen, amen dico vobis : non potest Filius a se facere quidquam, nisi quod viderit Patrem facientem : qucumque enim ille fecerit, hc et Filius similiter facit. 20 Pater enim diligit Filium, et omnia demonstrat ei qu ipse facit : et majora his demonstrabit ei opera, ut vos miremini. 21 Sicut enim Pater suscitat mortuos, et vivificat, sic et Filius, quos vult, vivificat. 22 Neque enim Pater judicat quemquam : sed omne judicium dedit Filio, 23 ut omnes honorificent Filium, sicut honorificant Patrem ; qui non honorificat Filium, non honorificat Patrem, qui misit illum. 24 Amen, amen dico vobis, quia qui verbum meum audit, et credit ei qui misit me, habet vitam ternam, et in judicium non venit, sed transiit a morte in vitam. 25 Amen, amen dico vobis, quia venit hora, et nunc est, quando mortui audient vocem Filii Dei : et qui audierint, vivent. 26 Sicut enim Pater habet vitam in semetipso, sic dedit et Filio habere vitam in semetipso : 27 et potestatem dedit ei judicium facere, quia Filius hominis est. 28 Nolite mirari hoc, quia venit hora in qua omnes qui in monumentis sunt audient vocem Filii Dei : 29 et procedent qui bona fecerunt, in resurrectionem vit ; qui vero mala egerunt, in resurrectionem judicii. 30 Non possum ego a meipso facere quidquam. Sicut audio, judico : et judicium meum justum est, quia non quro voluntatem meam, sed voluntatem ejus qui misit me.31 Si ego testimonium perhibeo de meipso, testimonium meum non est verum. 32 Alius est qui testimonium perhibet de me : et scio quia verum est testimonium, quod perhibet de me. 33 Vos misistis ad Joannem, et testimonium perhibuit veritati. 34 Ego autem non ab homine testimonium accipio : sed hc dico ut vos salvi sitis. 35 Ille erat lucerna ardens et lucens : vos autem voluistis ad horam exsultare in luce ejus. 36 Ego autem habeo testimonium majus Joanne. Opera enim qu dedit mihi Pater ut perficiam ea : ipsa opera, qu ego facio, testimonium perhibent de me, quia Pater misit me : 37 et qui misit me Pater, ipse testimonium perhibuit de me : neque vocem ejus umquam audistis, neque speciem ejus vidistis : 38 et verbum ejus non habetis in vobis manens : quia quem misit ille, huic vos non creditis. 39 Scrutamini Scripturas, quia vos putatis in ipsis vitam ternam habere : et ill sunt qu testimonium perhibent de me : 40 et non vultis venire ad me ut vitam habeatis. 41 Claritatem ab hominibus non accipio. 42 Sed cognovi vos, quia dilectionem Dei non habetis in vobis. 43 Ego veni in nomine Patris mei, et non accipitis me ; si alius venerit in nomine suo, illum accipietis. 44 Quomodo vos potestis credere, qui gloriam ab invicem accipitis, et gloriam qu a solo Deo est, non quritis ? 45 Nolite putare quia ego accusaturus sim vos apud Patrem : est qui accusat vos Moyses, in quo vos speratis. 46 Si enim crederetis Moysi, crederetis forsitan et mihi : de me enim ille scripsit. 47 Si autem illius litteris non creditis, quomodo verbis meis credetis ?