John Chapter 05

Question 1

John 5:1

Answer 1

Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews.

Question 2

John 5:2

Answer 2

Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.

Question 3

John 5:3

Answer 3

Here a great number of disabled people used to lie - the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.

Question 4

John 5:4

Answer 4

(((This verse is not in the earliest Greek manuscripts and so is omitted in the NIV 1984 and other translations)))

Question 5

John 5:5

Answer 5

One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

Question 6

John 5:6

Answer 6

When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”

Question 7

John 5:7

Answer 7

“Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”

Question 8

John 5:8

Answer 8

Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.”

Question 9

John 5:9

Answer 9

At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath,

Question 10

John 5:10

Answer 10

and so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.”

Question 11

John 5:11

Answer 11

But he replied, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”

Question 12

John 5:12

Answer 12

So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?”

Question 13

John 5:13

Answer 13

The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

Question 14

John 5:14

Answer 14

Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.”

Question 15

John 5:15

Answer 15

The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

Question 16

John 5:16

Answer 16

So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews persecuted him.

Question 17

John 5:17

Answer 17

Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too, am working.”

Question 18

John 5:18

Answer 18

For this reason the Jews tried all the harder to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

Question 19

John 5:19

Answer 19

Jesus gave them this answer: “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.

Question 20

John 5:20

Answer 20

For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, to your amazement he will show him even greater things than these.

Question 21

John 5:21

Answer 21

For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it.

Question 22

John 5:22

Answer 22

Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son,

Question 23

John 5:23

Answer 23

that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him.

Question 24

John 5:24

Answer 24

“I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life.

Question 25

John 5:25

Answer 25

I tell you the truth, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live.

Question 26

John 5:26

Answer 26

For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in himself.

Question 27

John 5:27

Answer 27

And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man.

Question 28

John 5:28

Answer 28

“Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice

Question 29

John 5:29

Answer 29

and come out - those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned.

Question 30

John 5:30

Answer 30

By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.

Question 31

John 5:31

Answer 31

“If I testify about myself, my testimony is not valid.

Question 32

John 5:32

Answer 32

There is another who testifies in my favor, and I know that his testimony about me is valid.

Question 33

John 5:33

Answer 33

“You have sent to John and he has testified to the truth.

Question 34

John 5:34

Answer 34

Not that I accept human testimony; but I mention it that you may be saved.

Question 35

John 5:35

Answer 35

John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you chose for a time to enjoy his light.

Question 36

John 5:36

Answer 36

“I have testimony weightier than that of John. For the very work that the Father has given me to finish, and which I am doing, testifies that the Father has sent me.

Question 37

John 5:37

Answer 37

And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You have never heard his voice nor seen his form,

Question 38

John 5:38

Answer 38

nor does his word dwell in you, for you do not believe the one he sent.

Question 39

John 5:39

Answer 39

You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me,

Question 40

John 5:40

Answer 40

yet you refuse to come to me to have life.

Question 41

John 5:41

Answer 41

“I do not accept praise from men,

Question 42

John 5:42

Answer 42

but I know you. I know that you do not have the love of God in your hearts.

Question 43

John 5:43

Answer 43

I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

Question 44

John 5:44

Answer 44

How can you believe if you accept praise from one another, yet make no effort to obtain the praise that comes from the only God?

Question 45

John 5:45

Answer 45

“But do not think I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom your hopes are set.

Question 46

John 5:46

Answer 46

If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.

Question 47

John 5:47

Answer 47

But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?”