John Chapter 5

In Jerusalem, Jesus arrived at the festival where there were a lot of people who were feeling sick and wanting to get healed from Him near a pool. Jesus saw a man who was sick for a long time and asked Him  “Do you need to get well?” The man answered, “Jesus, my Lord, I don’t have anyone in this pool to carry me to the pool.” “Get up, take your mat, and walk,” Jesus said to the man. So the man rolled up his mat after lying there, and started to walk. The people were astonished by what God had done to heal the man fast. But the Jewish authorities stopped the man and told him it’s bad to carry his own mat. The man replied “The man told me to carry my mat and walk”. The authorities asked, “ Who told you?”, but the man did not know Jesus' name. Later, Jesus found the healed man in a temple and said, “You are healed now, but stop sinning or something worse will happen to you”. They took Jesus away for healing miracles on a Sabbath day. This made the Jews want to mock Jesus because of Jesus saying that God was His Father and that He had become one with God. 

Jesus answered the truth that what the Father does, the Son also does these things His own way. The Son will show the Father greater things He has done. All people will honor the Son in the same manner as the Father. The people will not be judged by God’s voice, for those who see it will have eternal life in Him. The Son will be the source of life. God told everyone that John was the one who spoke of the truth. 

God has given witnesses to bear a light to the world. The Father also testifies on the Son’s behalf. All the people didn’t believe in the one whom He sent, but God knows what kind of human people they are with no love for God in their hearts. They like to praise each other, but they didn’t praise God, and they didn’t believe in His sayings. If the people had trusted Moses, they would have believed Jesus as well, because the Son wrote down these things about Him. They questioned His belief in them. 

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Questions

1. Why did Jesus describe Himself as the true witness to the Father?
2. How did the man feel when Jesus said to take up your mat and walk?
3. Where did the healing take place?
4. Why were the Jews beating Jesus on the Sabbath?