Jean 5

La guérison à la piscine de Béthesda

After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ²Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep [gate ]a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches. ³In these lay a multitude of them that were sick, blind, halt, withered.

⁴And a certain man was there, which had been thirty and eight years in his infirmity. ⁵When Jesus saw him lying, and knew that he had been now a long time [in that case], he saith unto him, Wouldest thou be made whole? ⁶The sick 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.

⁷Jesus saith unto him, Arise, take up thy bed, and walk. ⁸And straightway the man was made whole, and took up his bed and walked. Now it was the sabbath on that day. ⁹So the Jews said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath, and it is not lawful for thee to take up thy bed.

¹⁰But he answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk. ¹¹They asked him, Who is the man that said unto thee, Take up [thy bed], and walk? ¹²But he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in the place.

¹³Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing befall thee. ¹⁴The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus which had made him whole. ¹⁵And for this cause did the Jews persecute Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath.

L'autorité du Fils

¹⁶But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh even until now, and I work. ¹⁷For this cause therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only brake the sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God. ¹⁸Jesus 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 soever he doeth, these the Son also doeth in like manner.

¹⁹For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and greater works than these will he shew him, that ye may marvel. ²⁰For as the Father raiseth the dead and quickeneth them, even so the Son also quickeneth whom he will. ²¹For neither doth the Father judge any man, but he hath given all judgment unto the Son; ²²that all may honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which sent him.

²³Verily, 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. ²⁴Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live. ²⁵For as the Father hath life in himself, even so gave he to the Son also to have life in himself: ²⁶and he gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of man.

²⁷Marvel not at this: for the hour cometh, in which all that are in the tombs shall hear his voice, ²⁸And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done ill, unto the resurrection of judgment. ²⁹I 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.

³⁰If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.

Les témoignages rendus à Jésus

³¹It is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true. ³²Ye have sent unto John, and he hath borne witness unto the truth. ³³But the witness which I receive is not from man: howbeit I say these things, that ye may be saved.

³⁴He was the lamp that burneth and shineth: and ye were willing to rejoice for a season in his light. ³⁵But 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. ³⁶And the Father which sent me, he hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.

³⁷And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he sent, him ye believe not. ³⁸Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me;

Les Écritures rendent témoignage à Jésus

³⁹and ye will not come to me, that ye may have life. ⁴⁰I receive not glory from men. ⁴¹But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in yourselves.

⁴²I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. ⁴³How can ye believe, which receive glory one of another, and the glory that [cometh ]from the only God ye seek not? ⁴⁴Think not that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, [even ]Moses, on whom ye have set your hope.

⁴⁵For if ye believed Moses, ye would believe me; for he wrote of me. ⁴⁶But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?