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MODERN LITERAL VERSION - 2026 Update

5:1       {Joh 5:1-47 Jerusalem probably the Passover; no parallel.}       The feast of the Jews was after these things, and Jesus went-up to Jerusalem.

5:2 Now there is a pool in Jerusalem by the sheep gate called^* Bethesda in Hebrew, having five porches.

5:3 A large multitude of the ones being sick, blind, lame, and dried up were laying in these waiting for the moving of the water.

5:4 For^* a messenger was descending according-to time {i.e., from time to time} in the pool, and was disturbing the water. Therefore, the first one who stepped after the disturbance of the water became healthy, of whatever disease in which he was being held.      

5:5 Now a certain man who has been in sickness for thirty-eight years was there.

5:6 After Jesus saw this one reclining and knew that he has already spent much time there, he says to him, Do you wish to become healthy?      

5:7 The sick man answered him, Lord, I do not have a man, in-order-that he might put me in the pool, whenever the water is disturbed. But while I am coming, another is going-down before me.      

5:8 Jesus says to him, Lift yourself up, and take up your pallet and walk!

5:9 And immediately the man became healthy, and lifted up his pallet and was walking.      Now it was the Sabbath on that day.

5:10 Therefore, the Jews were saying to the one who has been healed, It is a Sabbath. It is not legal for you to lift up your pallet.      

5:11 He answered them, He who made^* me healthy, that man said to me, Lift up your pallet and walk.      

5:12 Therefore, they asked him, Who is the man who said to you, Lift up your pallet and walk?

5:13 But he who was healed did not know who it is; for^* Jesus had slipped out of the crowd being in the place.      

5:14 After these things, Jesus finds him in the temple and said to him, Behold, you have become healthy. Sin no longer, in-order-that something worse might not happen to you.

5:15 The man went away and proclaimed to the Jews, Jesus is the one who made^* him healthy.

5:16 And the Jews were persecuting Jesus because of this, and were seeking to kill him, because he was doing^* these things on a Sabbath.      

5:17 But Jesus answered them, My Father is working until now, and I am working.

5:18 Therefore, the Jews were seeking even more to kill him because of this, because he was not only tearing-down the Sabbath, but also that he was saying God is his own Father, making^* himself equal to God.      

5:19 Therefore, Jesus answered and said to them, Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you^°, The Son is not able to do^* anything from himself, if he does not see what the Father is doing^*. For^* whatever these things are that he himself is doing^*, the Son is also doing^* these things likewise.

5:20 For^* the Father loves the Son, and shows to him all things which he is doing^*, and he will be showing him greater works than these in-order-that you^° may marvel.

5:21 For^* just-like the Father raises up the dead and makes^* them alive, so the Son also is making^* those alive to whom he wills.

5:22 For^* the Father is not even judging anyone, but has given all judgment to the Son,

5:23 in-order-that all may honor the Son, just-as they honor the Father. He who is not honoring the Son, is not honoring the Father who sent him.      

5:24 Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you^°, He who hears my word and believes in the one who sent me, has everlasting life, and is not coming into judgment, but has stepped {i.e., passed} out-of the death into the life.      

5:25 Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you^°, The hour is coming and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and the ones who have heard will live.

5:26 For^* just-like the Father has life in himself, so he also gave to the Son, to have life in himself,

5:27 and he also gave authority to him to make^* judgment, because he is a son of man.

5:28 Do^° not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all the ones in the tombs will be hearing his voice,

5:29 and will travel out; the ones who practiced good things, to the resurrection of life, and the ones who practiced evil, to the resurrection of judgment.      

5:30 I am able to do^* nothing from myself. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I am not seeking my will, but the will of the Father who sent me. {Jn 7:24}

5:31 If I testify concerning myself, my testimony is not true.

5:32 It is another who is testifying concerning me, and I know that the testimony which he is testifying concerning me is true.

5:33 You^° have sent people forth to John, and he has testified to the truth.

5:34 But the testimony which I receive is not from man, but I am saying these things in-order-that you^° might save yourselves.

5:35 He was that lamp which burns and appears bright, and you^° willed to be glad ^*for a short-time in his light.

5:36 But the testimony which I have is greater than John’s; for^* the works which the Father gave to me in-order-that I should complete them, the works themselves which I am doing^*, testify concerning me, that the Father has sent me.

5:37 And the Father who sent me, he himself has testified concerning me. You^° have neither heard his voice at anytime, nor have seen his form.

5:38 And you^° do not have his word remaining in you^°, because you^° do not believe in that man whom he sent for this purpose.

5:39 You^° are searching the Scriptures because you^° think to have everlasting life in them, and those are the ones testifying concerning me;

5:40 and you^° are not willing to come to me in-order-that you^° may have life.      

5:41 I am not receiving glory from men.

5:42 But I have known you^°, that you^° do not have the love^* of God in yourselves.

5:43 I have come in the name of my Father, and you^° are not receiving me. If another comes in his own name, you^° will be receiving that man.

5:44 How are you^° able to believe, receiving glory from one another, and yet you^° are not seeking the glory which is from the only God?

5:45 Do^° not think that I will be accusing you^° to the Father. There is one who is accusing you^°, Moses, in whom you^° have hoped.

5:46 For^* if you^° were believing in Moses, you^° would be believing in me; for^* that man wrote concerning me.

5:47 But if you^° do not believe the Scriptures of that man, how will you^° believe in my declarations?