These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
John 5
Brit Hadashah 46 verses
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After this there was a Festival of the Jews, and went up to .
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Now there is in near the Sheep Gate a pool, called in Hebrew ‘Bethesda.’ It has five arcades.
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In these there used to lie a great number of sick persons, and of people who were blind or lame or paralyzed.
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- 5 And there was one man there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
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saw him lying there, and knowing that he had been a long time in that condition, He asked him, “Do you wish to have health and strength?”
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“Sir,” replied the sufferer, “I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is moved; but while I am coming some one else steps down before me.”
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“Rise,” said , “take up your mat and walk.”
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- 9 Instantly the man was restored to health, and he took up his mat and began to walk.
- 10 That day was a Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, “It is the Sabbath: you must not carry your mat.”
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“He who cured me,” he replied, “said to me, ‘Take up your mat and walk.’”
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“Who is it,” they asked, “that said to you, ‘Take up your mat and walk’?”
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But the man who had been cured did not who it was; for had passed out unnoticed, there being a crowd in the place.
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- 14 Afterwards found him in the Temple and said to him, “You are now restored to health. Do not sin any more, or a worse thing may befall you.”
- 15 The man went and told the Jews that it was who had restored him to health;
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and on this account the Jews began to persecute —because He did these things on the Sabbath.
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- 17 His reply to their accusation was, “My Father works unceasingly, and so do I.”
- 18 On this account then the Jews were all the more eager to put Him to death—because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also spoke of as being in a special sense His Father, thus putting Himself on a level with .
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“In most solemn I tell you,” replied , “that the Son can do nothing of Himself—He can only do what He sees the Father doing; for whatever He does, that the Son does in like manner.
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John 8:28 John 12:49 John 14:10 John 5:28-30 John 11:25-26 Romans 8:11 1 Peter 3:18 Isaiah 45:24 2 Corinthians 5:10 Colossians 1:16 Ephesians 2:5 John 5:21 John 2:19 2 Corinthians 4:14 Romans 6:4 Acts 2:24 Philippians 4:13 Genesis 1:1 John 9:4 Ephesians 3:16 Exodus 4:11 Psalm 50:6 John 14:16-23 John 5:24-26 Genesis 1:26 Proverbs 2:6 Isaiah 44:24 John 10:18 Ephesians 1:18-19 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 Psalm 138:3 John 3:3 Luke 21:15 Philippians 3:21 Jeremiah 17:10 1 Corinthians 15:12 1 Thessalonians 4:14 Psalm 27:14 Colossians 1:11 Revelation 2:23 - 20 For the Father loves the Son and reveals to Him all that He Himself is doing. And greater deeds than these will He reveal to Him, in order that you may wonder.
- 21 For just as the Father awakens the dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to whom He wills.
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The Father indeed does not judge any one, but He has entrusted all judgement to the Son,
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Acts 10:42 Acts 17:31 John 5:27 John 9:39 Matthew 28:18 2 Timothy 4:1 2 Corinthians 5:10 Romans 2:16 John 17:2 Revelation 20:11-12 Psalm 50:3-6 Ecclesiastes 11:9 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10 Matthew 16:27 Psalm 96:13 John 3:35 1 Peter 4:5 Ecclesiastes 12:14 Romans 14:10-12 Matthew 25:31-46 Psalm 9:7-8 Matthew 11:27 Psalm 98:9 -
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that all may the Son even as they the Father. The man who withholds from the Son withholds from the Father who sent Him.
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1 John 2:23 Luke 10:16 John 15:23-24 Ephesians 6:24 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 1 Corinthians 6:19 Ephesians 1:12-13 Matthew 12:21 Revelation 5:8-14 Matthew 10:37 John 16:14 Titus 3:4-6 Jeremiah 17:5-7 1 Corinthians 1:3 Titus 2:13-14 John 14:1 2 Peter 3:18 1 Corinthians 16:22 Zechariah 9:9 Isaiah 43:10-11 Romans 6:22 John 17:10 Matthew 22:37-38 2 Corinthians 13:14 Romans 8:9 2 Timothy 1:12 Luke 12:8-9 Hebrews 1:6 1 Thessalonians 3:11-13 1 Corinthians 10:31 2 John 1:9 Isaiah 45:21 Matthew 11:27 Romans 15:12 Romans 14:7-9 2 Corinthians 1:9 2 Peter 1:1 Romans 1:7 Isaiah 44:6 2 Corinthians 5:19 Matthew 28:19 Isaiah 45:15 Psalm 2:12 Isaiah 42:8 Psalm 146:3-5 2 Corinthians 5:14 -
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“In most solemn I tell you that he who listens to my teaching and believes Him who sent me, has the Life of the Ages, and does not come under judgement, but has passed over out of death into Life.
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- 25 “In most solemn I tell you that a time is coming—nay, has already come—when the dead will the voice of the Son of , and those who it will live.
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For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He has also given to the Son to have life in Himself.
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John 1:4 Jeremiah 10:10 1 Timothy 6:16 John 14:6 1 Timothy 1:17 John 17:2-3 Psalm 36:9 John 11:26 1 Corinthians 15:45 1 John 1:1-3 Exodus 3:14 John 7:37-38 Colossians 3:3-4 Revelation 22:17 John 6:57 Revelation 22:1 Psalm 90:2 Revelation 7:17 Acts 17:25 John 8:51 Revelation 21:6 John 4:10 John 14:19 - 27 And He has conferred on Him authority to act as Judge, because He is the Son of Man.
- 28 Wonder not at this. For a time is coming when all who are in the graves will His voice and will come forth—
- 29 they who have done what is right to the resurrection of Life, and they whose actions have been evil to the resurrection of judgement.
- 30 “I can of my own self do nothing. As I am bidden, so I judge; and mine is a just judgement, because it is not my own will that guides me, but the will of Him who sent me.
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“If I give testimony concerning myself, my testimony cannot be accepted.
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There is Another who gives testimony concerning me, and I that the testimony is true which He offers concerning me.
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“You sent to , and he both was and still is a witness to the .
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- 34 But the testimony on my behalf which I accept is not from man; though I say all this in order that you may be saved.
- 35 He was the lamp that burned and shone, and for a time you were willing to be gladdened by his light.
- 36 “But the testimony which I have is weightier than that of ; for the work the Father has assigned to me for me to bring it to completion—the very work which I am doing—affords testimony concerning me that the Father has sent me.
- 37 And the Father who sent me, *He* has given testimony concerning me. None of you have ever either heard His voice or seen what He is like.
- 38 Nor have you His dwelling within you, for you refuse to believe Him whom *He* has sent.
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“You search the Scriptures, because you suppose that in them you will find the Life of the Ages; and it is those Scriptures that yield testimony concerning me;
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Luke 24:27 2 Peter 1:19-21 Isaiah 34:16 Luke 24:44 Acts 26:22-23 1 Peter 1:10-11 2 Timothy 3:14-17 Acts 17:11 Acts 13:27 Proverbs 8:33-34 Romans 1:2 Jeremiah 8:9 Psalm 119:97-99 Romans 3:2 Deuteronomy 18:15 John 5:46 Acts 8:32-35 Psalm 16:11 Mark 12:10 Matthew 22:29 Luke 16:31 John 7:52 Joshua 1:8 John 5:32 Revelation 19:10 Psalm 36:9 Deuteronomy 11:18-20 John 1:45 Proverbs 6:23 Deuteronomy 32:47 Luke 16:29 Psalm 119:11 John 5:36 Acts 26:27 Matthew 19:16-20 Hebrews 11:35 Romans 2:17-18 Isaiah 8:20 Colossians 3:16 Psalm 21:4 Psalm 133:3 Daniel 12:2 Deuteronomy 17:18-19 Hebrews 11:16 Deuteronomy 18:18 Psalm 1:2 Luke 10:25-29 - 40 and yet you are unwilling to come to me that you may have Life.
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“I do not accept from man,
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- 42 but I you well, and I that in your hearts you do not really .
- 43 I have come as my Father’s representative, and you do not receive me. If some one else comes representing only himself, him you will receive.
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How is it possible for you to believe, while you receive from one another and have no desire for the that comes from the only ?
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- 45 “Do not suppose that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, namely , on whom your rests.
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For if you believe , you would believe me; for he wrote about me.
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But if you disbelieve his writings, how are you to believe my words?”
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