The Ministry Of Jesus. John’s Gospel

Jesus Heals at the Pool of Bethesda.

After this, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of impotent people, there are those who were blind, the halt, the maimed and those who had withered limbs these were waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever were the first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.

And a certain man was there, who had suffered from an infirmity for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, He said unto him, Will you be made whole? The impotent man answered Jesus, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: for while I am coming, another stepped down before me. Jesus said unto him, Rise, take up your bed, and walk. And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked.

On the same day was the sabbath, The Jews, therefore, said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for you to carry your bed. He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up your bed, and walk. Then they asked him, What man is that who had said unto you, Take up your bed, and walk? And he that was healed did not know who it was: for Jesus had conveyed Himself away, a multitude being in that place. Afterwards, Jesus found the man in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, you are made whole: now sin no more, lest a worse thing comes unto you. The man departed and told the Jews that it was Jesus, who had made him whole. John 5 vs 1-15.

The Uniqueness of the Father And the Son.

And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay Him, because He had done these things on the sabbath day. But Jesus answered them, My Father works up to now, and I work. Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill Him because Jesus had not only broken the sabbath, but He also declared that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God. Jesus answered and said unto them, truly, truly I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do: for what things soever the Father does, these also the Son does likewise.

For the Father loves the Son and shows Him all things that He Himself does and the Father will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel. For as the Father raises up the dead, and quickens them; even so does the Son quickens whom He will. For the Father judges no man but has committed all judgment unto the Son: That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. They that do not honour the Son, do not honour the Father that has sent Him. Truly, truly I say unto you, He that hears  My word, and believes on Him that sent Me, has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life.

Truly, truly I say unto you, The hour is coming and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. For as the Father has life in Himself; so has He has given to have life in Himself; And has given to the Son the authority to execute judgment also because He is the Son of Man. Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, And they shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. I can of My own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and My judgment is just; because I seek not My own will, but the will of the Father who has sent Me. John 5 vs 16-30.

Testimonies about Jesus.

If I bear witness of Myself, My witness is not true. There is another that bears witness of Me, and I know that the witness which He witnesses of Me is true. You sent unto John, and he bares witness unto the truth. But I do not receive testimony from man: but these things I say, that you might be saved. He was a burning and a shining light: and you were willing for a season to rejoice in his light. But I have a greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father has given Me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of Me, that the Father has sent . And the Father Himself, Who has sent Me, has borne witness of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time nor seen His shape. And you do not have His word abiding in you: for whom He has sent, Him you believe not. John 5 vs 31-38.

Witness of the Scripture.

Search the scriptures; for in them you think that you have eternal life: and they are they which testify of Me. And you will not come to Me, that you might have life. I do not receive honour from men. But I know you, that you do not have the love of God in you. I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me. If another shall come in his own name, him you will receive. How can you believe, who receives honour one of another, and seek not the honour that comes from God only? Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuses you, even Moses, in whom you trust. For had you believed Moses, you would have believed Me: for he wrote of Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how shall you believe My words? John 5 vs 39-47.