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John 5:11-22 Modern English Version (MEV)

11. He answered them, “He who healed me said to me, ‘Take up your bed and walk.’ ”

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

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 Now the man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in that place.

14. Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “See, you have become whole. Sin no more lest something worse happens to you.”

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

16. So the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath day.

17. Jesus answered them, “My Father is working still, and I am working.”

18. So the Jews sought even more to kill Him, because He not only had broken the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God.

19. Then Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do. For whatever He does, likewise the Son does.

20. For the Father loves the Son and shows Him all things that He Himself does. And He will show Him greater works than these so that you may marvel.

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

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

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