Bible Reading May 23, 24
World English Bible
Judges
3, 4
Jdg
3:1 Now these are the nations which Yahweh left, to prove Israel by
them, even as many of Israel
as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
Jdg
3:2 only that the generations of the children of Israel might know,
to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing of it:
Jdg
3:3 namely,
the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the
Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount
Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.
Jdg
3:4 They were left,
to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to the
commandments of Yahweh, which he commanded their fathers by Moses.
Jdg
3:5 The children of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites,
and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the
Jebusites:
Jdg
3:6 and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their
own daughters to their sons and served their gods.
Jdg
3:7 The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of
Yahweh, and forgot Yahweh their God, and served the Baals and the
Asheroth.
Jdg
3:8 Therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he
sold them into the hand of Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and
the children of Israel served Cushan Rishathaim eight years.
Jdg
3:9 When the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised up a
savior to the children of Israel, who saved them, even Othniel the
son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
Jdg
3:10 The Spirit of Yahweh came on him, and he judged Israel; and he
went out to war, and Yahweh delivered Cushan Rishathaim king of
Mesopotamia into his hand: and his hand prevailed against Cushan
Rishathaim.
Jdg
3:11 The land had rest forty years. Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
Jdg
3:12 The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the
sight of Yahweh: and Yahweh strengthened Eglon the king of Moab
against Israel, because they had done that which was evil in the
sight of Yahweh.
Jdg
3:13 He gathered to him the children of Ammon and Amalek; and he
went and struck Israel, and they possessed the city of palm trees.
Jdg
3:14 The children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen
years.
Jdg
3:15 But when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised
them up a savior, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a man
left-handed. The children of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the
king of Moab.
Jdg
3:16 Ehud made him a sword which had two edges, a cubit in length;
and he girded it under his clothing on his right thigh.
Jdg
3:17 He offered the tribute to Eglon king of Moab: now Eglon was a
very fat man.
Jdg
3:18 When he had made an end of offering the tribute, he sent away
the people who bore the tribute.
Jdg
3:19 But he himself turned back from the quarries that were by
Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand to you, king. He said, Keep
silence. All who stood by him went out from him.
Jdg
3:20 Ehud came to him; and he was sitting by himself alone in the
cool upper room. Ehud said, I have a message from God to you. He
arose out of his seat.
Jdg
3:21 Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the sword from his right
thigh, and thrust it into his body:
Jdg
3:22 and the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed
on the blade, for he didn't draw the sword out of his body; and it
came out behind.
Jdg
3:23 Then Ehud went forth into the porch, and shut the doors of the
upper room on him, and locked them.
Jdg
3:24 Now when he was gone out, his servants came; and they saw, and
behold, the doors of the upper room were locked; and they said,
Surely he is covering his feet in the upper chamber.
Jdg
3:25 They waited until they were ashamed; and behold, he didn't open
the doors of the upper room: therefore they took the key, and opened
them, and
behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.
Jdg
3:26 Ehud escaped while they waited, and passed beyond the quarries,
and escaped to Seirah.
Jdg
3:27 It happened, when he had come, that he blew a trumpet in the
hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel went down with
him from the hill country, and he before them.
Jdg
3:28 He said to them, Follow after me; for Yahweh has delivered your
enemies the Moabites into your hand. They went down after him, and
took the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and didn't allow a
man to pass over.
Jdg
3:29 They struck of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, every
lusty man, and every man of valor; and there escaped not a man.
Jdg
3:30 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. The land
had rest eighty years.
Jdg
3:31 After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck of the
Philistines six hundred men with an oxgoad: and he also saved Israel.
Jdg
4:1 The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the
sight of Yahweh, when Ehud was dead.
Jdg
4:2 Yahweh sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who
reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose army was Sisera, who lived in
Harosheth of the Gentiles.
Jdg
4:3 The children of Israel cried to Yahweh: for he had nine hundred
chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children
of Israel.
Jdg
4:4 Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, she judged
Israel at that time.
Jdg
4:5 She lived under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and
Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim: and the children of Israel
came up to her for judgment.
Jdg
4:6 She sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh
Naphtali, and said to him, Hasn't Yahweh, the God of Israel,
commanded, saying,
Go and draw to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the
children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?
Jdg
4:7 I will draw to you, to the river Kishon, Sisera, the captain of
Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver
him into your hand.
Jdg
4:8 Barak said to her, If you will go with me, then I will go; but
if you will not go with me, I will not go.
Jdg
4:9 She said, I will surely go with you: notwithstanding, the
journey that you take shall not be for your honor; for Yahweh will
sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. Deborah arose, and went with
Barak to Kedesh.
Jdg
4:10 Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh; and there
went up ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him.
Jdg
4:11 Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites,
even from the children of Hobab the brother-in-law of Moses, and had
pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim, which is by Kedesh.
Jdg
4:12 They told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to
Mount Tabor.
Jdg
4:13 Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred
chariots of iron, and all the people who were with him, from
Harosheth of the Gentiles, to the river Kishon.
Jdg
4:14 Deborah said to Barak, Up; for this is the day in which Yahweh
has delivered Sisera into your hand; hasn't Yahweh gone out before
you? So Barak went down from Mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after
him.
Jdg
4:15 Yahweh confused Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his army,
with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sisera alighted from his
chariot, and fled away on his feet.
Jdg
4:16 But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the army, to
Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the army of Sisera fell by the
edge of the sword; there was not a man left.
Jdg
4:17 However Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the
wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin the king
of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
Jdg
4:18 Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, Turn in, my
lord, turn in to me; don't be afraid. He came in to her into the
tent, and she covered him with a rug.
Jdg
4:19 He said to her, Please give me a little water to drink; for I
am thirsty. She opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and
covered him.
Jdg
4:20 He said to her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be,
when any man does come and inquire of you, and say, Is there any man
here? that you shall say, No.
Jdg
4:21 Then Jael Heber's wife took a tent peg, and took a hammer in
her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the pin into his
temples, and it pierced through into the ground; for he was in a deep
sleep; so he swooned and died.
Jdg
4:22 Behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and
said to him, Come, and I will show you the man whom you seek. He came
to her; and behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent peg was in his
temples.
Jdg
4:23 So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the
children of Israel.
Jdg
4:24 The hand of the children of Israel prevailed more and more
against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king
of Canaan.
May
24
Judges
5, 6
Jdg
5:1 Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day,
saying,
Jdg
5:2 Because the leaders took the lead in Israel, because the people
offered themselves willingly, be blessed, Yahweh!
Jdg
5:3 Hear, you kings! Give ear, you princes! I, even
I, will sing to Yahweh. I will sing praise to Yahweh, the God of
Israel.
Jdg
5:4 Yahweh, when you went forth out of Seir, when you marched out of
the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the sky also dropped. Yes, the
clouds dropped water.
Jdg
5:5 The mountains quaked at the presence of Yahweh, even Sinai, at
the presence of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
Jdg
5:6 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael,
the highways were unoccupied. The travelers walked through byways.
Jdg
5:7 The rulers ceased in Israel. They ceased until I, Deborah,
arose; Until I arose a mother in Israel.
Jdg
5:8 They chose new gods. Then war was in the gates. Was there a
shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
Jdg
5:9 My heart is toward the governors of Israel, who offered
themselves willingly among the people. Bless Yahweh!
Jdg
5:10 Tell of it,
you who ride on white donkeys, you who sit on rich carpets, and you
who walk by the way.
Jdg
5:11 Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water,
there they will rehearse the righteous acts of Yahweh, Even
the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. Then the people of Yahweh
went down to the gates.
Jdg
5:12 Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, utter a song! Arise,
Barak, and lead away your captives, you son of Abinoam.
Jdg
5:13 Then a remnant of the nobles and
the people came down. Yahweh came down for me against the mighty.
Jdg
5:14 Those whose root is in Amalek came out of Ephraim, after you,
Benjamin, among your peoples. Governors come down out of Machir.
Those who handle the marshal's staff came out of Zebulun.
Jdg
5:15 The princes of Issachar were with Deborah. As was Issachar, so
was Barak. They rushed into the valley at his feet. By the
watercourses of Reuben, there were great resolves of heart.
Jdg
5:16 Why did you sit among the sheepfolds, To hear the whistling for
the flocks? At the watercourses of Reuben There were great searchings
of heart.
Jdg
5:17 Gilead lived beyond the Jordan. Why did Dan remain in ships?
Asher sat still at the haven of the sea, and lived by his creeks.
Jdg
5:18 Zebulun was a people that jeopardized their lives to the
deaths; Naphtali also, on the high places of the field.
Jdg
5:19 The kings came and fought, then the kings of Canaan fought at
Taanach by the waters of Megiddo. They took no plunder of silver.
Jdg
5:20 From the sky the stars fought. From their courses, they fought
against Sisera.
Jdg
5:21 The river Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river
Kishon. My soul, march on with strength.
Jdg
5:22 Then the horse hoofs stamped because of the prancings, the
prancings of their strong ones.
Jdg
5:23 Curse Meroz, said the angel of Yahweh. Curse bitterly its
inhabitants, because they didn't come to help Yahweh, to help Yahweh
against the mighty.
Jdg
5:24 Jael shall be blessed above women, the wife of Heber the
Kenite; blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
Jdg
5:25 He asked for water. She gave him milk. She brought him butter
in a lordly dish.
Jdg
5:26 She put her hand to the tent peg, and her right hand to the
workmen's hammer. With the hammer she struck Sisera. She struck
through his head. Yes, she pierced and struck through his temples.
Jdg
5:27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay. At her feet he bowed, he
fell. Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
Jdg
5:28 Through the window she looked out, and cried: Sisera's mother
looked through the lattice. Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why
do the wheels of his chariots wait?
Jdg
5:29 Her wise ladies answered her, Yes, she returned answer to
herself,
Jdg
5:30 Have they not found, have they not divided the spoil? A lady,
two ladies to every man; to Sisera a spoil of dyed garments, A spoil
of dyed garments embroidered, Of dyed garments embroidered on both
sides, on the necks of the spoil?
Jdg
5:31 So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love
him be as the sun when it rises forth in its strength. The land had
rest forty years.
Jdg
6:1 The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of
Yahweh: and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Midian seven
years.
Jdg
6:2 The hand of Midian prevailed against Israel; and because of
Midian the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the
mountains, and the caves, and the strongholds.
Jdg
6:3 So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up,
and the Amalekites, and the children of the east; they came up
against them;
Jdg
6:4 and they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of
the earth, until you come to Gaza, and left no sustenance in Israel,
neither sheep, nor ox, nor donkey.
Jdg
6:5 For they came up with their livestock and their tents; they came
in as locusts for multitude; both they and their camels were without
number: and they came into the land to destroy it.
Jdg
6:6 Israel was brought very low because of Midian; and the children
of Israel cried to Yahweh.
Jdg
6:7 It happened, when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh because
of Midian,
Jdg
6:8 that Yahweh sent a prophet to the children of Israel: and he
said to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, I brought you up
from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage;
Jdg
6:9 and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of
the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out from before
you, and gave you their land;
Jdg
6:10 and I said to you, I am Yahweh your God; you shall not fear the
gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But you have not
listened to my voice.
Jdg
6:11 The angel of Yahweh came, and sat under the oak which was in
Ophrah, that pertained to Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon was
beating out wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
Jdg
6:12 The angel of Yahweh appeared to him, and said to him, Yahweh is
with you, you mighty man of valor.
Jdg
6:13 Gideon said to him, Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then
has all this happened to us? and where are all his wondrous works
which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not Yahweh bring us up from
Egypt? but now Yahweh has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand
of Midian.
Jdg
6:14 Yahweh looked at him, and said, Go in this your might, and save
Israel from the hand of Midian: have not I sent you?
Jdg
6:15 He said to him, Oh, Lord, with which shall I save Israel?
behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in
my father's house.
Jdg
6:16 Yahweh said to him, Surely I will be with you, and you shall
strike the Midianites as one man.
Jdg
6:17 He said to him, If now I have found favor in your sight, then
show me a sign that it is you who talk with me.
Jdg
6:18 Please don't go away, until I come to you, and bring out my
present, and lay it before you. He said, I will wait until you come
again.
Jdg
6:19 Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of
an ephah of meal: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth
in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it.
Jdg
6:20 The angel of God said to him, Take the flesh and the unleavened
cakes, and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth. He did so.
Jdg
6:21 Then the angel of Yahweh put forth the end of the staff that
was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and
there went up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the
unleavened cakes; and the angel of Yahweh departed out of his sight.
Jdg
6:22 Gideon saw that he was the angel of Yahweh; and Gideon said,
Alas, Lord Yahweh! because I have seen the angel of Yahweh face to
face.
Jdg
6:23 Yahweh said to him, Peace be to you; don't be afraid: you shall
not die.
Jdg
6:24 Then Gideon built an altar there to Yahweh, and called it
Yahweh is Peace: to this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
Jdg
6:25 It happened the same night, that Yahweh said to him, Take your
father's bull, even the second bull seven years old, and throw down
the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that
is by it;
Jdg
6:26 and build an altar to Yahweh your God on the top of this
stronghold, in the orderly manner, and take the second bull, and
offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall
cut down.
Jdg
6:27 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Yahweh had
spoken to him: and it happened, because he feared his father's
household and the men of the city, so that he could not do it by day,
that he did it by night.
Jdg
6:28 When the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold,
the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah was cut down that
was by it, and the second bull was offered on the altar that was
built.
Jdg
6:29 They said one to another, Who has done this thing? When they
inquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of Joash has done this
thing.
Jdg
6:30 Then the men of the city said to Joash, Bring out your son,
that he may die, because he has broken down the altar of Baal, and
because he has cut down the Asherah that was by it.
Jdg
6:31 Joash said to all who stood against him, Will you contend for
Baal? Or will you save him? he who will contend for him, let him be
put to death while it is yet
morning: if he be a god, let him contend for himself, because one has
broken down his altar.
Jdg
6:32 Therefore on that day he named him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal
contend against him, because he has broken down his altar.
Jdg
6:33 Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of
the east assembled themselves together; and they passed over, and
encamped in the valley of Jezreel.
Jdg
6:34 But the Spirit of Yahweh came on Gideon; and he blew a trumpet;
and Abiezer was gathered together after him.
Jdg
6:35 He sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; and they also were
gathered together after him: and he sent messengers to Asher, and to
Zebulun, and to Naphtali; and they came up to meet them.
Jdg
6:36 Gideon said to God, If you will save Israel by my hand, as you
have spoken,
Jdg
6:37 behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if
there be dew on the fleece only, and it be dry on all the ground,
then shall I know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have
spoken.
Jdg
6:38 It was so; for he rose up early on the next day, and pressed
the fleece together, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full
of water.
Jdg
6:39 Gideon said to God, Don't let your anger be kindled against me,
and I will speak but this once: Please let me make a trial just this
once with the fleece; let it now be dry only on the fleece, and on
all the ground let there be dew.
Jdg
6:40 God did so that night: for it was dry on the fleece only, and
there was dew on all the ground.
John 4
Joh 4:1
Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus
was making and baptizing more disciples than John
Joh 4:2
(although Jesus himself didn't baptize, but his disciples),
Joh 4:3
he left Judea, and departed into Galilee.
Joh 4:4
He needed to pass through Samaria.
Joh 4:5
So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of
ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph.
Joh 4:6
Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his
journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
Joh 4:7
A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give
me a drink."
Joh 4:8
For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
Joh 4:9
The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, "How is it that you,
being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" (For
Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
Joh
4:10 Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who
it is who says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him,
and he would have given you living water."
Joh
4:11 The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw
with, and the well is deep. From where then have you that living
water?
Joh
4:12 Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well,
and drank of it himself, as did his children, and his livestock?"
Joh
4:13 Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks of this water
will thirst again,
Joh
4:14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never
thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a
well of water springing up to eternal life."
Joh
4:15 The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I
don't get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw."
Joh
4:16 Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."
Joh
4:17 The woman answered, "I have no husband." Jesus said
to her, "You said well, 'I have no husband,'
Joh
4:18 for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not
your husband. This you have said truly."
Joh
4:19 The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a
prophet.
Joh
4:20 Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that
in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship."
Joh
4:21 Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour comes,
when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the
Father.
Joh
4:22 You worship that which you don't know. We worship that which we
know; for salvation is from the Jews.
Joh
4:23 But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers will
worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to
be his worshippers.
Joh
4:24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit
and truth."
Joh
4:25 The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah comes,"
(he who is called Christ). "When he has come, he will declare to
us all things."
Joh
4:26 Jesus said to her, "I am he, the one who speaks to you."
Joh
4:27 At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking
with a woman; yet no one said, "What are you looking for?"
or, "Why do you speak with her?"
Joh
4:28 So the woman left her water pot, and went away into the city,
and said to the people,
Joh
4:29 "Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can
this be the Christ?"
Joh
4:30 They went out of the city, and were coming to him.
Joh
4:31 In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, "Rabbi,
eat."
Joh
4:32 But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you don't
know about."
Joh
4:33 The disciples therefore said one to another, "Has anyone
brought him something to eat?"
Joh
4:34 Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who
sent me, and to accomplish his work.
Joh
4:35 Don't you say, 'There are yet four months until the harvest?'
Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that
they are white for harvest already.
Joh
4:36 He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life;
that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
Joh
4:37 For in this the saying is true, 'One sows, and another reaps.'
Joh
4:38 I sent you to reap that for which you haven't labored. Others
have labored, and you have entered into their labor."
Joh
4:39 From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because
of the word of the woman, who testified, "He told me everything
that I did."
Joh
4:40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay
with them. He stayed there two days.
Joh
4:41 Many more believed because of his word.
Joh
4:42 They said to the woman, "Now we believe, not because of
your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is
indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world."
Joh
4:43 After the two days he went out from there and went into
Galilee.
Joh
4:44 For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his
own country.
Joh
4:45 So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him,
having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, for
they also went to the feast.
Joh
4:46 Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made
the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick
at Capernaum.
Joh
4:47 When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he
went to him, and begged him that he would come down and heal his son,
for he was at the point of death.
Joh
4:48 Jesus therefore said to him, "Unless you see signs and
wonders, you will in no way believe."
Joh
4:49 The nobleman said to him, "Sir, come down before my child
dies."
Joh
4:50 Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your son lives." The
man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.
Joh
4:51 As he was now going down, his servants met him and reported,
saying "Your child lives!"
Joh
4:52 So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better.
They said therefore to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour, the
fever left him."
Joh
4:53 So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said
to him, "Your son lives." He believed, as did his whole
house.
Joh
4:54 This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out
of Judea into Galilee.
John 5
Joh 5:1
After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up
to Jerusalem.
Joh 5:2
Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called
in Hebrew, "Bethesda," having five porches.
Joh 5:3
In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame,
or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water;
Joh 5:4
for an angel of the Lord went down at certain times into the pool,
and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring
of the water was made whole of whatever disease he had.
Joh 5:5
A certain man was there, who had been sick for thirty-eight years.
Joh 5:6
When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a
long time, he asked him, "Do you want to be made well?"
Joh 5:7
The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into
the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I'm coming, another
steps down before me."
Joh 5:8
Jesus said to him, "Arise, take up your mat, and walk."
Joh 5:9
Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked.
Now it was the Sabbath on that day.
Joh
5:10 So the Jews said to him who was cured, "It is the Sabbath.
It is not lawful for you to carry the mat."
Joh
5:11 He answered them, "He who made me well, the same said to
me, 'Take up your mat, and walk.' "
Joh
5:12 Then they asked him, "Who is the man who said to you,
'Take up your mat, and walk' ?"
Joh
5:13 But he who was healed didn't know who it was, for Jesus had
withdrawn, a crowd being in the place.
Joh
5:14 Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him,
"Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse
happens to you."
Joh
5:15 The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had
made him well.
Joh
5:16 For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill
him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.
Joh
5:17 But Jesus answered them, "My Father is still working, so I
am working, too."
Joh
5:18 For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill
him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his
own Father, making himself equal with God.
Joh
5:19 Jesus therefore answered them, "Most certainly, I tell
you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father
doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.
Joh
5:20 For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all
things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than
these, that you may marvel.
Joh
5:21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so
the Son also gives life to whom he desires.
Joh
5:22 For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to
the Son,
Joh
5:23 that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He
who doesn't honor the Son doesn't honor the Father who sent him.
Joh
5:24 "Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and
believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn't come into
judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
Joh
5:25 Most certainly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when
the dead will hear the Son of God's voice; and those who hear will
live.
Joh
5:26 For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the
Son also to have life in himself.
Joh
5:27 He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a
son of man.
Joh
5:28 Don't marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are
in the tombs will hear his voice,
Joh
5:29 and will come out; those who have done good, to the
resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the
resurrection of judgment.
Joh
5:30 I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment
is righteous; because I don't seek my own will, but the will of my
Father who sent me.
Joh
5:31 "If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid.
Joh
5:32 It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony
which he testifies about me is true.
Joh
5:33 You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.
Joh
5:34 But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I
say these things that you may be saved.
Joh
5:35 He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to
rejoice for a while in his light.
Joh
5:36 But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John,
for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works
that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.
Joh
5:37 The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You
have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.
Joh
5:38 You don't have his word living in you; because you don't
believe him whom he sent.
Joh
5:39 "You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them
you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
Joh
5:40 Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.
Joh
5:41 I don't receive glory from men.
Joh
5:42 But I know you, that you don't have God's love in yourselves.
Joh
5:43 I have come in my Father's name, and you don't receive me. If
another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
Joh
5:44 How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and
you don't seek the glory that comes from the only God?
Joh
5:45 "Don't think that I will accuse you to the Father. There
is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.
Joh
5:46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote
about me.
Joh
5:47 But if you don't believe his writings, how will you believe my
words?"
