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while I am coming some one else steps down
before me." 005:008 "Rise," said Jesus, "take up your mat and walk."
005:009 Instantly the man was restored to perfect health, and he took
up his mat and began to walk. 005:010 That day was a Sabbath. So the
Jews said to the man who had been cured, "It is the Sabbath: you must
not carry your mat." 005:011 "He who cured me," he replied, "said to
me, `Take up your mat and walk.'" 005:012 "Who is it," they asked,
"that said to you, `Take up your mat and walk'?" 005:013 But the man
who had been cured did not know who it was; for Jesus had passed out
unnoticed, there being a crowd in the place. 005:014 Afterwards Jesus
found him in the Temple and said to him, "You are now restored to
health. Do not sin any more, or a worse thing may befall you." 005:015
The man went and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had restored him
to health; 005:016 and on this account the Jews began to persecute
Jesus-- because He did these things on the Sabbath. 005:017 His reply
to their accusation was, "My Father works unceasingly, and so do I."
005:018 On this account then the Jews were all the more eager to put
Him to death--because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also spoke
of God as being in a special sense His Father, thus putting Himself on a
level with God. 005:019 "In most solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus,

"that the Son can do nothing of Himself--He can only do what He sees
the Father doing; for whatever He does, that the Son does in like
manner. 005:020 For the Father loves the Son and reveals to Him all
that He Himself is doing. And greater deeds than these will He reveal
to Him, in order that you may wonder. 005:021 For just as the Father
awakens the dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to
whom He wills. 005:022 The Father indeed does not judge any one, but
He has entrusted all judgement to the Son, 005:023 that all may honour
the Son even as they honour the Father. The man who withholds
honour from the Son withholds honour from the Father who sent Him.
005:024 "In most solemn truth I tell you that he who listens to my
teaching and believes Him who sent me, has the Life of the Ages, and
does not come under judgement, but has passed over out of death into
Life. 005:025 "In most solemn truth I tell you that a time is coming--
nay, has already come--when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of
God, and those who hear it will live. 005:026 For just as the Father has
life in Himself, so He has also given to the Son to have life in Himself.
005:027 And He has conferred on Him authority to act as Judge,
because He is the Son of Man. 005:028 Wonder not at this. For a time
is coming when all who are in the graves will hear His voice and will
come forth-- 005:029 they who have done what is right to the
resurrection of Life, and they whose actions have been evil to the
resurrection of judgement. 005:030 "I can of my own self do nothing.
As I am bidden, so I judge; and mine is a just judgement, because it is
not my own will that guides me, but the will of Him who sent me.
005:031 "If I give testimony concerning myself, my testimony cannot
be accepted. 005:032 There is Another who gives testimony concerning
me, and I know that the testimony is true which He offers concerning
me. 005:033 "You sent to John, and he both was and still is a witness to
the truth. 005:034 But the testimony on my behalf which I accept is not
from man; though I say all this in order that you may be saved. 005:035
He was the lamp that burned and shone, and for a time you were
willing to be gladdened by his light. 005:036 "But the testimony which
I have is weightier than that of John; for the work the Father has
assigned to me for me to bring it to completion--the very work which I
am doing-- affords testimony concerning me that the Father has sent
me. 005:037 And the Father who sent me, *He* has given testimony

concerning me. None of you have ever either heard His voice or seen
what He is like. 005:038 Nor have you His word dwelling within you,
for you refuse to believe Him whom *He* has sent. 005:039 "You
search the Scriptures, because you suppose that