Old Testament

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John 5:12-26 English Standard Version (ESV)

12. They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?”

13. Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place.

14. Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you.”

15. The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him.

16. And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

17. But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”

18. This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

19. So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Fatherdoes, that the Son does likewise.

20. For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. And greater works than these will he show him, so that you may marvel.

21. For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.

22. The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,

23. that all may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

24. Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

25. “Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

26. For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself.

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