MODERN LITERAL VERSION

5:1 The feast of the Jews was after these things, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
5:2 Now in Jerusalem, by the sheep gate, there is a pool called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches.
5:3 A large crowd of those who were sick, blind, lame, dried up, lay in these waiting for the moving of the water.
5:4 For* a messenger went down from time to time in the pool, and disturbs the water. Therefore, he who stepped in first after the disturbance of the water became healthy, from whatever disease he was held by.

5:5 And a certain man was there, who had been thirty eight years in sickness.
5:6 When Jesus saw him lying and having known that he had already been there a long time, he says to him, Do you wish to become healthy?

5:7 The sick man answered him, Lord, I do not have a man, that* he might put me in the pool whenever the water is disturbed. But while I am coming, another is going down before me.

5:8 Jesus says to him, Arise, lift up your pallet and walk.
5:9 And immediately the man became healthy, and lifted up his pallet and walked.
Now on that day, it was the Sabbath.
5:10 So the Jews said to him who had been healed, It is the Sabbath. It is not legal for you to lift up your pallet.

5:11 He answered them, He who made* me healthy, that man said to me, Lift up your pallet and walk.

5:12 Therefore they asked him, Who is the man who said to you, Lift up your pallet and walk?
5:13 But he who was healed did not know who it was; for* Jesus had slipped out of the crowd that was in that place.

5:14 After these things, Jesus finds him in the temple and said to him, Behold, you have become healthy. Sin no longer, in order that a worse thing might not happen to you.
5:15 The man went away and reported to the Jews that it was Jesus who had made* him healthy.
5:16 And because of this, the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.

5:17 But Jesus answered them, My Father works until now, and I work.
5:18 Therefore, because of this, the Jews sought even more to kill him, because he did not only tear-down the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making* himself equal with God.

5:19 Therefore, Jesus answered and said to them, Assuredly, assuredly, I say to you*, The Son can do nothing from himself, if he does not see what the Father is doing; for* whatever things he does, the Son is also doing these things likewise.
5:20 For* the Father loves the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does, and greater works than these he will show him, that* you* may marvel.
5:21 For* just-like the Father raises up the dead and is giving-life to them, so the Son also is giving-life to whom he wills.
5:22 For* the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son;
5:23 that* all may honor the Son, just-as they are honoring the Father. He who is not honoring the Son, does not honor the Father who sent him.

5:24 Assuredly, assuredly, I say to you*, He who hears my word and believes in him who sent me, has everlasting life, and does not come into judgment, but has stepped out of death into life.

5:25 Assuredly, assuredly, I say to you*, The hour is coming and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and they who hear will live.
5:26 For* as the Father has life in himself, so he also gave to the Son, to have life in himself,
5:27 and he also gave him authority to make* judgment, because he is a son of man.
5:28 Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice,
5:29 and will travel out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have practiced evil, to the resurrection of judgment.

5:30 I am able to do nothing of myself. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I am not seeking my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me.
5:31 If I testify concerning myself, my testimony is not true.
5:32 It is another who is testifying concerning me, and I know that the testimony which he is testifying concerning me is true.
5:33 You* have sent people to John, and he has testified to the truth.
5:34 But the testimony which I receive is not from man, but I say these things, in order that you* might be saved.
5:35 He was the lamp that was burning and appearing, and you* were willing to be glad for a season in his light.
5:36 But the testimony which I have is greater than John's; for* the works which the Father gave me, that* I should finish, the same works which I am doing, testify concerning me, that the Father has sent me.
5:37 And the Father who sent me, he has testified concerning me. You* have neither heard his voice at anytime, nor seen his form.
5:38 And you* do not have his word remaining in you*, because you* do not believe him whom he sent.
5:39 You* are searching the Scriptures because you* think that in them you* have everlasting life, and these are those which are testifying concerning me;
5:40 and you* are not willing to come to me, that* you* may have life.

5:41 I am not receiving glory from men.
5:42 But I know you*, that you* do not have the love* of God in yourselves.
5:43 I have come in my Father's name, and you* are not receiving me. If another comes in his own name, you* will receive him.
5:44 How can you* believe, who receive glory of one another, and the glory that comes from the only God, you* are not seeking?
5:45 Do not think that I will accuse you* to the Father. There is one who is accusing you*, Moses, in whom you* have hoped.
5:46 For* if you* believed Moses, you* would believe me; for* he wrote concerning me.
5:47 But if you* do not believe the Scriptures, how will you* believe my declarations?
{Mk 6:30-32 & Mt 14:13 & Lk 9:10 & Jn 6:1 East shore of Galilee.}