The Life of Jesus

so the Judeans said to the man who had been healed, “It’s Shabbat! It’s against Torah for you to carry your mat!”

But he answered them, “The man who healed me — he’s the one who told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”

They asked him, “Who is the man who told you to pick it up and walk?”

But the man who had been healed didn’t know who it was, because Yeshua had slipped away into the crowd.

Afterwards Yeshua found him in the Temple court and said to him, “See, you are well! Now stop sinning, or something worse may happen to you!”

The man went off and told the Judeans it was Yeshua who had healed him;

and on account of this, the Judeans began harassing Yeshua because he did these things on Shabbat.

But he answered them, “My Father has been working until now, and I too am working.”

This answer made the Judeans all the more intent on killing him — not only was he breaking Shabbat; but also, by saying that God was his own Father, he was claiming equality with God.

Therefore, Yeshua said this to them: “Yes, indeed! I tell you that the Son cannot do anything on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing; whatever the Father does, the Son does too.

For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he does; and he will show him even greater things than these, so that you will be amazed.

Just as the Father raises the dead and makes them alive, so too the Son makes alive anyone he wants.

The Father does not judge anyone but has entrusted all judgment to the Son,

so that all may honor the Son as they honor the Father. Whoever fails to honor the Son is not honoring the Father who sent him.

Yes, indeed! I tell you that whoever hears what I am saying and trusts the One who sent me has eternal life — that is, he will not come up for judgment but has already crossed over from death to life!

Yes, indeed! I tell you that there is coming a time — in fact, it’s already here — when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen will come to life.

For just as the Father has life in himself, so he has given the Son life to have in himself.

Also he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man.

Don’t be surprised at this; because the time is coming when all who are in the grave will hear his voice

and come out — those who have done good to a resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to a resurrection of judgment.

I can’t do a thing on my own. As I hear, I judge; and my judgment is right; because I don’t seek my own desire, but the desire of the one who sent me.

“If I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is not valid.

But there is someone else testifying on my behalf, and I know that the testimony he is making is valid —

you have sent to Yochanan, and he has testified to the truth.

Not that I collect human testimony; rather, I say these things so that you might be saved.