Summary: <p><strong>Hi, this is Ricky and our Daily Devotional today is found in John 5:1-29. </strong><strong>Feel free to read along in the show notes below.</strong><br> <strong>Also, I’d love to hear your thoughts on this scripture so comment on this episode at http://dailydevotionalpodcast.com/podcast/john-51-29/.</strong></p> <p class="chapter-1"><span class="text John-5-1">1 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.</span></p> <p><span id="en-ESV-26202" class="text John-5-2"><sup class="versenum">2 </sup>Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades.</span> <span id="en-ESV-26203" class="text John-5-3"><sup class="versenum">3 </sup>In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed.</span> <span id="en-ESV-26204" class="text John-5-5"><sup class="versenum">5 </sup>One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.</span> <span id="en-ESV-26205" class="text John-5-6"><sup class="versenum">6 </sup>When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, <span class="woj">“Do you want to be healed?”</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-26206" class="text John-5-7"><sup class="versenum">7 </sup>The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.”</span> <span id="en-ESV-26207" class="text John-5-8"><sup class="versenum">8 </sup>Jesus said to him, <span class="woj">“Get up, take up your bed, and walk.”</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-26208" class="text John-5-9"><sup class="versenum">9 </sup>And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked.</span></p> <p><span class="text John-5-9">Now that day was the Sabbath.</span> <span id="en-ESV-26209" class="text John-5-10"><sup class="versenum">10 </sup>So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed.”</span> <span id="en-ESV-26210" class="text John-5-11"><sup class="versenum">11 </sup>But he answered them, “The man who healed me, that man said to me, <span class="woj">‘Take up your bed, and walk.’</span>”</span> <span id="en-ESV-26211" class="text John-5-12"><sup class="versenum">12 </sup>They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?”</span> <span id="en-ESV-26212" class="text John-5-13"><sup class="versenum">13 </sup>Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place.</span> <span id="en-ESV-26213" class="text John-5-14"><sup class="versenum">14 </sup>Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, <span class="woj">“See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you.”</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-26214" class="text John-5-15"><sup class="versenum">15 </sup>The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him.</span> <span id="en-ESV-26215" class="text John-5-16"><sup class="versenum">16 </sup>And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.</span><span id="en-ESV-26216" class="text John-5-17"><sup class="versenum">17 </sup>But Jesus answered them, <span class="woj">“My Father is working until now, and I am working.”</span></span></p> <p><span class="text John-5-18"><sup class="versenum">18 </sup>This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.</span></p> <p><span class="text John-5-19"><sup class="versenum">19 </sup>So Jesus said to them, <span class="woj">“Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-26219" class="text John-5-20"><span class="woj"><sup class="ve"></sup></span></span></p>
