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Gospel of John, Chapter 5

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Chapter 5 of John—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ After these things there was a[a] festival1 of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
  2. Now in Jerusalem at the sheepgate2 there is a pool designated in Hebrew Beth·zaʹtha,[b] with five colonnades.
  3. In these a multitude of the sick, blind, lame and those with withered members, was lying down.
  4. [c] ——
  5. But a certain man was there who had been in his sickness for thirty-eight years.
  6. Seeing this man lying down, and being aware that he had already been [sick] a long time,3 Jesus said to him: “Do you want to become sound in health?”4
  7. The sick man answered him: “Sir, I do not have a man to put me into the pool when the water is disturbed; but while I am coming another steps down ahead of me.”
  8. Jesus said to him: “Get up, pick up your cot and walk.”5
  9. With that the man immediately became sound in health, and he picked up his cot and began to walk.
    ¶ Now on that day it was a sabbath.6
  10. Therefore the Jews began to say to the cured man: “It is Sabbath, and it is not lawful7 for you to carry the cot.”
  11. But he answered them: “The very one that made me sound in health said to me, ‘Pick up your cot and walk.’”
  12. They asked him: “Who is the man that told you, ‘Pick it up and walk’?”
  13. But the healed man did not know who he was, for Jesus had turned aside, there being a crowd in the place.
  14. ¶ After these things Jesus found him in the temple and said to him: “See, you have become sound in health. Do not sin anymore, in order that something worse does not happen to you.”
  15. The man went away and told the Jews it was Jesus that made him sound in health.
  16. So on this account the Jews went persecuting8 Jesus, because he was doing these things during Sabbath.
  17. But he answered them: “My Father has kept working until now, and I keep working.”9
  18. On this account, indeed, the Jews began seeking all the more to kill him,10 because not only was he breaking the Sabbath but he was also calling God his own Father,11 making himself equal12 to God.
  19. ¶ Therefore, in answer, Jesus[d] went on to say to them: “Most truly I say to YOU, The Son cannot do a single thing of his own initiative,[e] but only what he beholds the Father doing.13 For whatever things that One does, these things the Son also does in like manner.
  20. For the Father has affection for the Son14 and shows him all the things he himself does, and he will show him works greater than these, in order that YOU may marvel.15
  21. For just as the Father raises the dead up and makes them alive,16 so the Son also makes those alive whom he wants to.17
  22. For the Father judges no one at all, but he has committed all the judging to the Son,18
  23. in order that all may honor the Son19 just as they honor the Father. He that does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.20
  24. Most truly I say to YOU, He that hears my word and believes him that sent me has everlasting life,21 and he does not come into judgment but has passed over from death to life.22
  25. ¶ “Most truly I say to YOU, The hour is coming, and it is now, when the dead23 will hear the voice24 of the Son of God and those who have given heed will live.
  26. For just as the Father has life in himself,[f]25 so he has granted also to the Son to have life in himself.26
  27. And he has given him authority to do judging,27 because Son of man28 he is.
  28. Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs29 will hear his voice
  29. and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life,30 those who practiced vile things to a resurrection of judgment.[g]31
  30. I cannot do a single thing of my own initiative;[h] just as I hear, I judge; and the judgment that I render is righteous,32 because I seek, not my own will, but the will33 of him that sent me.
  31. ¶ “If I alone bear witness34 about myself, my witness is not true.35
  32. There is another that bears witness about me, and I know that the witness which he bears36 about me is true.
  33. YOU have dispatched men to John, and he has borne witness to the truth.37
  34. However, I do not accept the witness from man, but I say these things that YOU may be saved.38
  35. That man was a burning and shining lamp, and YOU for a short time were willing to rejoice greatly in his light.39
  36. But I have the witness greater than that of John, for the very works that my Father assigned me to accomplish, the works themselves that I am doing,40 bear witness about me that the Father dispatched me.
  37. Also, the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me.41 YOU have neither heard his voice at any time nor seen his figure;42
  38. and YOU do not have his word remaining in YOU, because the very one whom he dispatched YOU do not believe.
  39. ¶ “YOU are searching the Scriptures,43 because YOU think that by means of them YOU will have everlasting life; and these are the very ones that bear witness about me.44
  40. And yet YOU do not want to come to me that YOU may have life.45
  41. I do not accept glory from men,46
  42. but I well know that YOU do not have the love of God in YOU.47
  43. I have come in the name of my Father,48 but YOU do not receive me; if someone else arrived in his own name, YOU would receive that one.
  44. How can YOU believe, when YOU are accepting glory49 from one another and YOU are not seeking the glory that is from the only God?[i]50
  45. Do not think that I will accuse YOU to the Father; there is one that accuses YOU, Moses,51 in whom YOU have put YOUR hope.
  46. In fact, if YOU believed Moses YOU would believe me, for that one wrote about me.52
  47. But if YOU do not believe the writings of that one,53 how will YOU believe my sayings?”

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ “A,” ABD; אC, “the.”
  2. ^ “Bethzatha” (meaning “House of the Olive,” or, “House of Olives”), א; P75BVg, “Bethsaida,” meaning “House of Fishing”; ACSyc,hi,pArm, “Bethesda.”
  3. ^ P66,75אBDVgSyc omit vs 4; AItVgcSyhi,pArm add: “For an angel of the Lord [J9,22,23, “of Jehovah”] would come down into the pool from season to season and disturb the water; the first one then to step in after the disturbance of the water would become sound in health from whatever disease it was by which he was afflicted.”
  4. ^ “Jesus,” אAVg; B, “he.”
  5. ^ Or, “thing original with him.”
  6. ^ Or, “in himself the gift of life.” See Ro 6:23.
  7. ^ “Resurrection of judgment.” Gr., a·naʹsta·sin kriʹse·os; Lat., re·sur·rec·ti·oʹnem iu·diʹci·i.
  8. ^ Or, “thing original with me.”
  9. ^ “God,” אADItVgSyc,h,hi,p; P66,75B omit.

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Ex 12:14; De 16:1, 16; Jn 2:13; 6:4
  2. ^ Ne 3:1; 12:39
  3. ^ Lu 13:11
  4. ^ Ps 72:13; Is 53:3
  5. ^ Mt 9:6; Mr 2:11; Lu 5:24; Ac 3:7
  6. ^ Jn 9:14
  7. ^ Ex 20:10; Ne 13:19; Je 17:21; Mt 12:2; Lu 6:2
  8. ^ Mt 12:14; Jn 15:20
  9. ^ Ge 2:3; Jn 9:4; 14:10
  10. ^ Jn 7:1, 19
  11. ^ Jn 10:38; 14:28
  12. ^ Pp 2:6
  13. ^ Jn 5:30; 8:28; 12:49
  14. ^ Mt 3:17; Jn 3:35; 10:17; 2Pe 1:17
  15. ^ Lu 8:25; Jn 6:11, 19
  16. ^ 2Ki 4:34; Heb 11:35
  17. ^ Lu 7:14; 8:54; Jn 11:25; Re 1:18
  18. ^ Ex 18:13; Mt 11:27; Ac 10:42; 17:31; 2Co 5:10; 2Ti 4:1
  19. ^ Jn 3:35; Pp 2:10
  20. ^ Lu 10:16
  21. ^ Jn 3:16; 6:40; 8:51
  22. ^ 1Jo 3:14
  23. ^ 1Co 15:52
  24. ^ Jn 11:43; 1Th 4:16
  25. ^ Ps 36:9; Ac 17:28
  26. ^ Jn 11:25; Re 1:18
  27. ^ Jn 5:22; 2Ti 4:1
  28. ^ Da 7:13
  29. ^ Jb 14:13; Is 25:8; 26:19; Re 20:12
  30. ^ Da 12:2; Re 20:12
  31. ^ 2Pe 2:9; Re 20:15
  32. ^ Is 11:4
  33. ^ Mt 26:39; Jn 4:34; 6:38
  34. ^ De 19:15
  35. ^ Jn 8:14
  36. ^ Mt 3:17; Mr 9:7; Jn 12:30; 1Jo 5:9
  37. ^ Jn 1:15, 32
  38. ^ Jn 11:42
  39. ^ Mt 3:5; 13:20; Mr 6:20; 2Pe 1:19
  40. ^ Mt 11:5; Jn 3:2; 7:31; 10:25
  41. ^ Mt 17:5; Mr 1:11; Jn 8:18; 12:30; 1Jo 5:9
  42. ^ De 4:12; Jn 1:18; 6:46; 1Ti 1:17; 1Jo 4:12
  43. ^ Is 8:20; Lu 11:52; Ac 17:11; 2Ti 3:15; 1Pe 1:10
  44. ^ De 18:15
  45. ^ Is 53:3; Jn 1:11
  46. ^ 1Th 2:6
  47. ^ 1Jo 4:20
  48. ^ Ex 3:15
  49. ^ Jn 12:43
  50. ^ 1Co 4:5
  51. ^ De 31:26; Jn 7:19; Ro 2:12
  52. ^ Ge 3:15; 49:10; De 18:15; Lu 24:44; Jn 1:45; Ac 26:22
  53. ^ Lu 16:31

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Comments

  1. Kiamia DoelKiamia Doel
    Jan 9, 2025 23:00 GMT

    The NWT adds words to the text that are not in the greek Manuscripts to fit it's own doctrinal position for example

    Compare the wording of the NWT and the NKJV at Colossians 1:15-17

    NKJV says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

    NWT says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God,the firstborn OF all creation;16 because by means of him all OTHER things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible,whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All OTHER things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all OTHER things,and by means of him all OTHER things were made to exist,

    The word “other” is not in the Greek but they add it Why? So they can decieve their followers into thinking that Christ was created by the Father and that he then created other things, that is not what the Greek says.

    1. SmeSme
      Feb 27, 2025 11:17 GMT

      Truth is from God and those that follow him. As for lies? John8:44

      Kiamia, I noticed you used a modern version of kjv to make your point about the nwt.

      Why didn’t you use the original kjv of col1:15?

      Is it because it disproves your point? It proves the opposite of what you wrote?

      Here is kjv col1:15 ¶” Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn OF every creature:“

      Now I appeal to your Christian nature to correct your mistake as God is watching each of us, and let us bless the God of Jesus his father.

      Kjv 1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ….

  2. YanekYanek
    Dec 24, 2024 22:18 GMT

    Joshua, Jehovah’s Witnesses have never denied the deity of the Messiah in his prehuman existence. While on Earth he was fully 100% human. I do not mean he was a mere human, he was not affected by Adam’s unfaithful behavior, he was sinless.

  3. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  4. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  5. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  6. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  7. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  8. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  9. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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