John 5:1-4
THE SICK MAN OF BETHESDA. The health-giving waters:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SICK MAN OF BETHESDA. The health-giving waters:... [ Continue Reading ]
AFTER THIS THERE WAS A FEAST OF THE JEWS; AND JESUS WENT UP TO JERUSALEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW THERE IS AT JERUSALEM BY THE SHEEP-MARKET A POOL, WHICH IS CALLED IN THE HEBREW TONGUE BETHESDA, HAVING FIVE PORCHES.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THESE LAY A GREAT MULTITUDE OF IMPOTENT FOLK, OF BLIND, HALT, WITHERED, WAITING FOR THE MOVING OF THE WATER.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR AN ANGEL WENT DOWN AT A CERTAIN SEASON INTO THE POOL, AND TROUBLED THE WATER; WHOSOEVER THEN FIRST, AFTER THE TROUBLING OF THE WATER, STEPPED IN WAS MADE WHOLE OF WHATSOEVER DISEASE HE HAD. "After this"; how long is not stated by the evangelist; he merely denotes an interval, in which a part of... [ Continue Reading ]
AND A CERTAIN MAN WAS HERE WHICH HAD AN INFIRMITY THIRTY AND EIGHT YEARS.... [ Continue Reading ]
The healing:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN JESUS SAW HIM LIE AND KNEW THAT HE HAD BEEN NOW A LONG TIME IN THAT CASE, HE SAITH UNTO HIM, WILT THOU BE MADE WHOLE?... [ Continue Reading ]
THE IMPOTENT MAN ANSWERED HIM, SIR, I HAVE NO MAN, WHEN THE WATER IS TROUBLED, TO PUT ME INTO THE POOL; BUT WHILE I AM COMING, ANOTHER STEPPETH DOWN BEFORE ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
JESUS SAITH UNTO HIM, RISE, TAKE UP THY BED, AND WALK.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IMMEDIATELY THE MAN WAS MADE WHOLE, AND TOOK UP HIS BED, AND WALKED. AND ON THE SAME DAY WAS THE SABBATH. Among all the sick people that were lying in the porticoes at the pool's brink there was no case more pitiful than that of a man who had spent thirty-eight years there in the misery of his s... [ Continue Reading ]
THE JEWS THEREFORE SAID UNTO HIM THAT WAS CURED, IT IS THE SABBATH-DAY; IT IS NOT LAWFUL FOR THEE TO CARRY THY BED.... [ Continue Reading ]
The objections of the Jews:... [ Continue Reading ]
HE ANSWERED THEM, HE THAT MADE ME WHOLE, THE SAME SAID UNTO ME, TAKE UP THY BED AND WALK.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN ASKED THEY HIM, WHAT MAN IS THAT WHICH SAID UNTO THEE, TAKE UP THY BED AND WALK?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE THAT WAS HEALED WIST NOT WHO IT WAS; FOR JESUS HAD CONVEYED HIMSELF AWAY, A MULTITUDE BEING IN THAT PLACE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AFTERWARD JESUS FINDETH HIM IN THE TEMPLE, AND SAID UNTO HIM, BEHOLD, THOU ART MADE WHOLE; SIN NO MORE, LEST A WORSE THING COME UNTO THEE.... [ Continue Reading ]
The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus which had made him whole.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEREFORE DID THE JEWS PERSECUTE JESUS, AND SOUGHT TO SLAY HIM, BECAUSE HE HAD DONE THESE THINGS ON THE SABBATH-DAY. The religion of the Jews at the time of Jesus had largely become a matter of dead form, without the true understanding of love and mercy. It was true, indeed, that the law prohibi... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT JESUS ANSWERED THEM, MY FATHER WORKETH HITHERTO, AND I WORK.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE RELATION BETWEEN THE FATHER AND THE SON. Jesus gives the Jews an answer:... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE THE JEWS SOUGHT THE MORE TO KILL HIM, BECAUSE HE NOT ONLY HAD BROKEN THE SABBATH, BUT SAID ALSO THAT GOD WAS HIS FATHER, MAKING HIMSELF EQUAL WITH GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN ANSWERED JESUS AND SAID UNTO THEM, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU, THE SON CAN DO NOTHING OF HIMSELF, BUT WHAT HE SEETH THE FATHER DO; FOR WHAT THINGS SOEVER HE DOETH, THESE ALSO DOETH THE SON LIKEWISE.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE FATHER LOVETH THE SON, AND SHOWETH HIM ALL THINGS THAT HIMSELF DOETH; AND HE WILL SHOW HIM GREATER WORKS THAN THESE, THAT YE MAY MARVEL. The hostile attitude of the Jews and their murderous thoughts were not unknown to Jesus, and He takes occasion to justify Himself, and incidentally to try... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR AS THE FATHER RAISETH UP THE DEAD AND QUICKENETH THEM, EVEN SO THE SON QUICKENETH WHOM HE WILL.... [ Continue Reading ]
The greater miracles:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE FATHER JUDGETH NO MAN, BUT HATH COMMITTED ALL JUDGMENT UNTO THE SON,... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT ALL MEN SHOULD HONOR THE SON, EVEN AS THEY HONOR THE FATHER. HE THAT HONORETH NOT THE SON HONORETH NOT THE FATHER WHICH HATH SENT HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU, HE THAT HEARETH MY WORD, AND BELIEVETH ON HIM THAT SENT ME, HATH EVERLASTING LIFE, AND SHALL NOT COME INTO CONDEMNATION, BUT IS PASSED FROM DEATH UNTO LIFE.... [ Continue Reading ]
VERILY, VERILY, 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.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR AS THE FATHER HATH LIFE IN HIMSELF, SO HATH HE GIVEN TO THE SON TO HAVE LIFE IN HIMSELF;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HATH GIVEN HIM AUTHORITY TO EXECUTE JUDGMENT ALSO, BECAUSE HE IS THE SON OF MAN. Since the miracle and the words of Jesus had not yet convinced the Jews, He here points forward to two miracles which would put His claim to the Sonship of God beyond question. The Jews believed in the power of God... [ Continue Reading ]
MARVEL NOT AT THIS; FOR THE HOUR IS COMING IN THE WHICH ALL THAT ARE IN THE GRAVES SHALL HEAR HIS VOICE,... [ Continue Reading ]
The coming of the Judgment:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SHALL COME FORTH: THEY THAT HAVE DONE GOOD UNTO THE RESURRECTION OF LIFE; AND THEY THAT HAVE DONE EVIL, UNTO THE RESURRECTION OF DAMNATION.... [ Continue Reading ]
I CAN OF MINE OWN SELF DO NOTHING; AS I HEAR I JUDGE, AND MY JUDGMENT IS JUST, BECAUSE I SEEK NOT MINE OWN WILL, BUT THE WILL OF THE FATHER WHICH HATH SENT ME. The fact that it is Jesus Christ, the God-man Jesus, to whose human nature such great powers are given and who, in this capacity, will judge... [ Continue Reading ]
IF I BEAR WITNESS OF MYSELF, MY WITNESS IS NOT TRUE.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WITNESS OF JOHN, OF THE FATHER, AND OF SCRIPTURES. A reference to John:... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE IS ANOTHER THAT BEARETH WITNESS OF ME; AND I KNOW THAT THE WITNESS WHICH HE WITNESSETH OF ME IS TRUE.... [ Continue Reading ]
YE SENT UNTO JOHN, AND HE BARE WITNESS UNTO THE TRUTH.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT I RECEIVE NOT TESTIMONY FROM MAN; BUT THESE THINGS I SAY THAT YE MIGHT BE SAVED.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE WAS A BURNING AND A SHINING LIGHT, AND YE WERE WILLING FOR A SEASON TO REJOICE IN HIS LIGHT. The Jews might have raised the objection at this point that Jesus was speaking and testifying of Himself, but that His own testimony had no value. See Deuteronomy 19:15. Jesus concedes in advance that fro... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT I HAVE GREATER WITNESS THAN THAT OF JOHN; FOR THE WORKS WHICH THE FATHER HATH GIVEN ME TO FINISH, THE SAME WORKS THAT I DO BEAR WITNESS OF ME THAT THE FATHER HATH SENT ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
The witness of the Father:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE FATHER HIMSELF WHICH HATH SENT ME HATH BORNE WITNESS OF ME. YE HAVE NEITHER HEARD HIS VOICE AT ANY TIME NOR SEEN HIS SHAPE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND YE HAVE NOT HIS WORD ABIDING IN YOU; FOR WHOM HE HATH SENT, HIM YE BELIEVE NOT. The testimony of John was valuable for their sakes only; Jesus did not need the witness of men. He could appeal to testimony greater than John's. For all the works which He was performing had been given Him by the Fa... [ Continue Reading ]
SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES; FOR IN THEM YE THINK YE HAVE ETERNAL LIFE; AND THEY ARE THEY WHICH TESTIFY OF ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
The authority of the Scriptures:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND YE WILL NOT COME TO ME THAT YE MIGHT HAVE LIFE.... [ Continue Reading ]
I RECEIVE NOT HONOR FROM MEN.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT I KNOW YOU THAT YE HAVE NOT THE LOVE OF GOD IN YOU.... [ Continue Reading ]
I AM COME IN MY FATHER'S NAME, AND YE RECEIVE ME NOT; IF ANOTHER SHALL COME IN HIS OWN NAME, HIM YE WILL RECEIVE.... [ Continue Reading ]
HOW CAN YE BELIEVE, WHICH RECEIVE HONOR ONE OF ANOTHER, AND SEEK NOT THE HONOR THAT COMETH FROM GOD ONLY?... [ Continue Reading ]
DO NOT THINK THAT I WILL ACCUSE YOU TO THE FATHER; THERE IS ONE THAT ACCUSETH YOU, EVEN MOSES, IN WHOM YE TRUST.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HAD YE BELIEVED MOSES, YE WOULD HAVE BELIEVED ME; FOR HE WROTE OF ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT IF YE BELIEVE NOT HIS WRITINGS, HOW SHALL YE BELIEVE MY WORDS? A most diligent perusal, a ceaseless searching of Scriptures is recommended by Jesus. The Scriptures, as the Jews had them in those days, as they were used by them in synagogue and Temple, contained the historical books of the Old Te... [ Continue Reading ]