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John 4:42 | 986 986 | John 5:24
42 They said to the wom an, “We no longer
be lieve just be cause of what you said;
now we have heard for our selves, and we
know that this man real ly is the Sav ior
of the world.”
Jesus Heals an Official’s Son
43 Af ter the two days he left for Gal i lee.
44 (Now Jesus him self had point ed out
that a proph et has no hon or in his own
coun try.) 45 When he ar rived in Gal i lee,
the Gal i le ans wel comed him. They had
seen all that he had done in Je ru sa lem
at the Pass over Fes ti val, for they also had
been there.
46 Once more he vis it ed Cana in Gal i­
lee, where he had turned the wa ter into
wine. And there was a certain royal official
whose son lay sick at Ca per na um. 47 When
this man heard that Jesus had ar rived in
Gal i lee from Ju dea, he went to him and
begged him to come and heal his son, who
was close to death.
48 “Un less you peo ple see signs and
won ders,” Jesus told him, “you will never
believe.”
49 The roy al of fi cial said, “Sir, come down
be fore my child dies.”
50 “Go,” Jesus re plied, “your son will live.”
The man took Jesus at his word and
departed. 51 While he was still on the way,
his ser vants met him with the news that
his boy was liv ing. 52 When he in quired as
to the time when his son got bet ter, they
said to him, “Yes ter day, at one in the after
noon, the fe ver left him.”
53 Then the fa ther re al ized that this was
the ex act time at which Jesus had said to
him, “Your son will live.” So he and his
whole household believed.
54 This was the sec ond sign Jesus performed
after coming from Judea to Galilee.
The Healing at the Pool
Some time lat er, Jesus went up to Jerusalem
for one of the Jewish festivals.
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2 Now there is in Je ru sa lem near the Sheep
Gate a pool, which in Ar a ma ic is called Bethesda
and which is sur round ed by five
a
covered colonnades. 3 Here a great num ber
of dis abled peo ple used to lie — ​the blind,
the lame, the par a lyzed. [4] b 5 One who was
there had been an in val id for thir ty­ eight
years. 6 When Jesus saw him ly ing there
and learned that he had been in this condi
tion for a long time, he asked him, “Do
you want to get well?”
7 “Sir,” the in val id re plied, “I have no
one to help me into the pool when the
wa ter is stirred. While I am try ing to get
in, some one 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 Sab bath, 10 and so the Jew ish lead ers
said to the man who had been healed,
“It is the Sab bath; the law for bids you to
carry your mat.”
11 But he re plied, “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 Lat er Jesus found him at the tem ple
and said to him, “See, you are well again.
Stop sin ning or some thing worse may
happen to you.” 15 The man went away and
told the Jew ish lead ers that it was Jesus
who had made him well.
The Authority of the Son
16 So, be cause Jesus was do ing these
things on the Sab bath, the Jew ish leaders
be gan to per se cute him. 17 In his defense
Jesus said to them, “My Fa ther is
al ways at his work to this very day, and
I too am work ing.” 18 For this rea son they
tried all the more to kill him; not only
was he break ing the Sab bath, but he was
even call ing God his own Fa ther, mak ing
himself equal with God.
19 Jesus gave them this an swer: “Very truly
I tell you, the Son can do noth ing by himself;
he can do only what he sees his Fa ther
doing, because whatever the Father does
the Son also does. 20 For the Fa ther loves
the Son and shows him all he does. Yes,
and he will show him even great er works
than these, so that you will be amazed.
21 For just as the Fa ther rais es the dead and
gives them life, even so the Son gives life to
whom he is pleased to give it. 22 Moreover,
the Fa ther judg es no one, but has en trusted
all judg ment to the Son, 23 that all may
hon or the Son just as they hon or the Fa ther.
Who ev er does not hon or the Son does not
hon or the Fa ther, who sent him.
24 “Very tru ly I tell you, who ev er hears my
word and be lieves him who sent me has
eter nal life and will not be judged but has
a b 2 Some manuscripts Bethzatha; other manuscripts Bethsaida 3,4 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.