John 4:43-5:17

New American Standard Bible

⁴³ And after ^(A)the two days, He departed from there for Galilee. ⁴⁴ For Jesus Himself testified that ^(B)a prophet has no honor in his own country. ⁴⁵ So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him, only because ^(C)they had seen all the things that He did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves also went to the feast.

Healing an Official’s Son

⁴⁶ Therefore He came again to ^(D)Cana of Galilee, ^(E)where He had made the water into wine. And there was a royal official whose son was sick at ^(F)Capernaum. ⁴⁷ When he heard that Jesus had come ^(G)from Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and began asking Him to come down and heal his son; for he was at the point of death. ⁴⁸ Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see ^[a](H)signs and ^(I)wonders, you simply will not believe.” ⁴⁹ The royal official *said to Him, “^[b]Sir, come down before my child dies.” ⁵⁰ Jesus *said to him, “^(J)Go; your son ^[c]is alive.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went home. ⁵¹ And as he was now going down, his slaves met him, saying that his ^[d]son was ^[e]alive. ⁵² So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. Then they said to him, “Yesterday at the ^[f]seventh hour the fever left him.” ⁵³ So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son is alive”; and he himself believed, and ^(K)his entire household. ⁵⁴ This is again a ^(L)second ^[g]sign that Jesus performed when He had ^(M)come from Judea into Galilee.

The Healing at Bethesda

5 After these things there was ^(N)a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

² Now in Jerusalem, by ^(O)the Sheep Gate, there is a pool which ^(P)in ^[h]Hebrew is called ^[i]Bethesda, having five ^[j]porticoes. ³ In these porticoes lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, limping, or ^[k]paralyzed.^{[l] 5} Now a man was there who had been ^[m]ill for thirty-eight years. ⁶ Jesus, upon seeing this man lying there and knowing that he had already been in that condition for a long time, *said to him, “Do you want to get well?” ⁷ The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I am coming, another steps down before me.” ⁸ Jesus *said to him, “^(Q)Get up, pick up your pallet and walk.” ⁹ Immediately the man became well, and picked up his pallet and began to walk.

^(R)Now it was a Sabbath on that day. ¹⁰ So ^(S)the Jews were saying to the man who was cured, “It is a Sabbath, and ^(T)it is not permissible for you to carry your pallet.” ¹¹ But he answered them, “He who made me well was the one who said to me, ‘Pick up your pallet and walk.’” ¹² They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick it up and walk’?” ¹³ But the man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away while there was a crowd in that place. ¹⁴ Afterward, Jesus *found him in the temple and said to him, “Behold, you have become well; do not ^(U)sin anymore, ^(V)so that nothing worse happens to you.” ¹⁵ The man went away, and informed ^(W)the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. ¹⁶ For this reason ^(X)the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He was doing these things on a Sabbath. ¹⁷ But He answered them, “My Father ^[n]is working until now, and I Myself am working.”