CHAPTER FIVE
This chapter is the really great chapter on the deity of Jesus. Here
He brings to testify undeniable witnesses to His Sonship. In this
chapter we also see the first of open controversy on the part of the
Jewish rulers. In connection with this we have included a Special
Study on Controv... [ Continue Reading ]
A HELPLESS MAN HEALED
_Text 5:1-9_
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After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to
Jerusalem.
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Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in
Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches.
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In these lay a multitude of them that were sick, blind, halt,... [ Continue Reading ]
SABBATH CONTROVERSY
_Text 5:10-18_
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So the Jews said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath, and it is
not lawful for thee to take up thy bed.
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But he answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me,
Take up thy bed, and walk.
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They asked him, Who is the man that said un... [ Continue Reading ]
THE DEITY STATED
_Text 5:19-23_
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Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say
unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the
Father doing: for what things so ever he doeth, these the Son also
doeth in like manner.
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For the Father loveth the Son, and... [ Continue Reading ]
POWERS INHERENT IN THAT DEITY
_Text 5:24-29_
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Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth
him that sent me, hath eternal life, and cometh not into judgment, but
hath passed out of death into life.
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Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour cometh, and now is, when... [ Continue Reading ]
JESUS-' OWN WITNESS
_Text 5:30-32_
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I can of myself do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is
righteous; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of him that
sent me.
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If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.
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It is another that beareth witness of me; and I kn... [ Continue Reading ]
JOHN THE BAPTIST'S WITNESS
_Text 5:33-35_
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Ye have sent unto John, and he hath borne witness unto the truth.
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But the witness which I receive is not from man: howbeit I say these
things, that ye may be saved.
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He was the lamp that burneth and shineth; and ye were willing to
rejoice for... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FATHER'S WITNESS
_Text 5:36-38_
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But the witness which I have is greater than that of John; for the
works which the Father hath given me to accomplish, the very works
that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.
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And the Father that sent me, he hath borne witness of me.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WITNESS OF THE SCRIPTURES
_Text 5:39-47_
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Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have
eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me;
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and ye will not come to me, that ye may have life.
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I receive not glory from men.
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But I know you, that ye have n... [ Continue Reading ]