Chapter 05

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Chapter five of the Gospel according to John American Standard Version.
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by Sam Stinson by his faith dot com. Chapter five.
After these things, there was a feast of the Jews,

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and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in
Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called
in Hebrew bethesda, having five porches, and these lay a
multitude of them that were sick, blind, halt, withered. And
a certain man was there who had been thirty and
eight years in his infirmity. When Jesus saw him lying,

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and knew that he had been now a long time
in that case, he saith unto him, wouldst thou be
made whole? The sick man answered him, Sir, I have
no man when the water is troubled to put me
in the pool. But while I am coming, another steppeth
down before me. Jesus saith unto him, arise, take up

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thy bed and walk and straightway. The man was made whole,
and took up his bed and walked now it was
the Sabbath on that day. So the jew said, unto
him that was cured, it is the sabbath, and it
is not lawful for THEE to take up thy bed.
But he answered them, he that made me hold the

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same said, unto me, take up thy bed and walk.
They asked him who is the man that said, unto thee,
take up thy bed and walk? But he that was
healed knew not who it was, for Jesus had conveyed
himself away a multitude being in the place. Afterward, Jesus
findeth him in the temple and said, unto him, behold,

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thou art made whole, sin no more lest a worse
thing befall thee. The man went away and told the
Jews that it was Jesus who had made him whole.
And for this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus because he
did these things on the Sabbath. But Jesus answered them,
my father worketh even until now, and I work for

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this cause. Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him,
because he not only break the sabbath, but also called
God his own father, making himself equal with God. Jesus
therefore answered and said unto them. Verily, verily, I say
unto you, the son can do nothing of himself, but
what he seeth the Father doing. For what thingsoever he doeth, these,

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the son also doeth in like manner. For the Father
loveth the son and showeth him all things that himself doeth.
In greater works than these, will he show him, that
ye may marvel. For as the Father raiseth the dead
and giveth them life, even so the son also giveth
life to whom he will. For neither doth the Father

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judge any man, but he hath given all judgment unto
the Son, that all may honor the son, even as
they honor the Father. He that honoreth not the son,
honoreth not the Father that send him. Verily, verily, I
say unto you, he that heareth my word and believeth
him that sent me hath eternal life, and cometh not
into judgment, but hath passed out of death into life. Verily, verily,

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I say unto you, the hour cometh, and now is
when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son
of God, and they that here shall live. For as
the Father hath life in himself, even so gave he
to the son also to have life in himself, and
he gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is

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a son of Man. Marvel not at this, for the
hour cometh, in which all that are in the tombs
shall hear his voice, and shall come forth they that
have done good unto the resurrection of life, and they
that have done evil unto the resurrection of judgment. I
can of myself do nothing as I hear. I judge,

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and my judgment is righteous, because I seek not mine
own will, but the will of Him that sent me.
If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.
It is another that beareth witness of me. And I
know that the witness which he witnesses of me is true.
Ye have sent unto John, and he hath borne witness
unto the truth. But the witness which I receive is

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not from man. Howbeit I say these things that ye
may be saved. He was the lamp that burneth and shineth,
and ye were willing to rejoice for a season in
his light. But the witness which I have is greater
than that of John. For the works which the Father
hath given me to accomplish, the very works that I
do bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me,

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and the Father that sent me, he hath born witness
of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time,
nor seen his form, And ye have not his word
abiding in you, for whom he sent him. Ye believe
not ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in
them ye have a life. And these are they which
bear witness of me. And ye will not come to

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me that ye may have life. I receive not glory
from men. But I know you that ye have not
the love of God in yourselves. I am come in
my Father's name, and ye receive me. Not if another
shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
How can ye believe who receive glory one of another,
and the glory that cometh from the only God. Ye

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seek not think not that I will accuse you to
the Father. There is one that accuseth you, even Moses,
on whom ye have set your hope. For if ye
believed Moses, ye would believe me, for he wrote of me.
But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye
believe my words? End of Chapter five