8. Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your mat, and walk.”
9. Immediately the man became well, took up his mat, and walked.Now that day was a sabbath.
10. So the Jews said to the man who was cured, “It is the sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry your mat.”
11. He answered them, “The man who made me well told me, ‘Take up your mat and walk.’”
12. They asked him, “Who is the man who told you, ‘Take it up and walk’?”
13. The man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away, since there was a crowd there.
14. After this Jesus found him in the temple area and said to him, “Look, you are well; do not sin any more, so that nothing worse may happen to you.”
15. The man went and told the Jews that Jesus was the one who had made him well.
16. Therefore, the Jews began to persecute Jesus because he did this on a sabbath.
17. But Jesus answered them, “My Father is at work until now, so I am at work.”
18. For this reason the Jews tried all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath but he also called God his own father, making himself equal to God.
19. Jesus answered and said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, a son cannot do anything on his own, but only what he sees his father doing; for what he does, his son will do also.
20. For the Father loves his Son and shows him everything that he himself does, and he will show him greater works than these, so that you may be amazed.
21. For just as the Father raises the dead and gives life, so also does the Son give life to whomever he wishes.
22. Nor does the Father judge anyone, but he has given all judgment to his Son,
23. so 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. Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life and will not come to condemnation, but has passed from death to life.
25. Amen, amen, I say to you, the 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 just as the Father has life in himself, so also he gave to his Son the possession of life in himself.