Part IV. Our Lord's Second Passover, And The Subsequent Transactions Until The Third.

Time. One year.

§ 36. The pool of Bethesda; the healing of the infirm man; and our Lord's subsequent discourse. Jerusalem.

John.
CH. V. 1-47.
After this there was a feast of the Jews: and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 Now there is at Jerusalem, by the sheep market, a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue, Bethesda,[132] having five porches.
3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in, was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
7 The impotent 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.
8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
9 And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.
10 The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath-day; it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.
11 He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.
12 Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?
13 And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place.
14 Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole; sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.
15 The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus which had made him whole.
16 And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done things things on the sabbath-day.
17 But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also, hat God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
19 Then answered Jesus, and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
20 For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.
21 For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
22 For the Father judgeth no man; but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:
23 That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son, honoureth not the Father which has sent him.
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death into life.
25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
26 For as the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;
27 And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.
28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
31 If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.
32 There is another that beareth witness of me, and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.
33 Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth.
34 But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved.
35 He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.
36. But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.
37 And the Father himself which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice[133] at any time, nor seen his shape.
38 And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.
39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: And they are they which testify of me.
40 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
41 I receive not honour from men.
42 But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.
43 I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
44 How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?
45 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.
46 For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.
47 But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?

§ 37. The disciples pluck ears of grain on the Sabbath. On the way to Galilee?

Matthew.Mark.
CH. XII. 1-8.CH. II. 23-28.
At that time Jesus went on the sabbath-day through the corn, and his disciples were a hungered, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat.[134]23 And it came to pass, that he went through the corn-fields on the sabbath-day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of Corn.
2 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath-day.[135]24 And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath-day that which is not lawful?
3 But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did when he was a hungered, and they that were with him;25 And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did,[136] when he had need, and was a hungered, he and they that were with him?
4 How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shew-bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?26 How he went into the house of God, in the days of Abiathar[137] the high priest, and did eat the shew-bread, which is not lawful to eat, but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him?
5 Or have ye not read in the law how that on the sabbath-days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?[138]
6 But I say unto you, that in this place is one greater than the temple.
7 But if ye had known what this meaneth,[139] I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.27 And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
8 For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath-day.28 Therefore, the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
Luke.
CH. VI. 1-5.
And it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he went through the corn-fields; and his disciples plucked the ears of corn, and did eat, rubbing them in their hands.
2 And certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath-days?
3 And Jesus, answering them, said, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was a hungered, and they which were with him;
4 How he went into the house of God, and did take and eat the shewbread, and gave also to them that were with him, which it is not lawful to eat but for the priests alone?
5 And he said unto them, That the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.

§ 38. The healing of the withered hand on the Sabbath. Galilee.

Matthew.Mark.
CH. XII. 9-14.CH. III. 1-6.
9 And when he was departedthence, he went into their synagogue.And he entered again into the synagogue;and there was a man there which had a withered hand.
10 And behold, there was a manwhich had his hand withered. Andthey asked him, saying, Is it lawfulto heal on the sabbath-days? thatthey might accuse him.2 And they watched him, whetherhe would heal him on the sabbath-day;that they might accuse him.
11 And he said unto them, Whatman shall there be among you, thatshall have one sheep, and if it fall intoa pit on the sabbath-day, will he notlay hold of it, and lift it out?3 And he saith unto the man whichhad the withered hand, Stand forth.
4 And he saith unto them, Is itlawful to do good on the sabbath-days,or to do evil? to save life, or to kill?But they held their peace.
12 How much then is a man betterthan a sheep? wherefore it is lawfulto do well on the sabbath-days.5 And when he had looked roundabout on them with anger, beinggrieved for the hardness of theirhearts, he saith unto the man, Stretchforth thy hand. And he stretchedit out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.
13 Then saith he to the man,Stretch forth thy hand. And hestretched it forth; and it was restoredwhole, like as the other.6 And the Pharisees went forth,and straightway took counsel withthe Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.