5. One person who was there had been disabled for 38 years.
6. Jesus saw him lying there. He knew that the man had been in that condition for a long time. So he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"
7. "Sir," the disabled man replied, "I have no one to help me into the pool when an angel stirs the water up. I try to get in, but someone else always goes down ahead of me."
8. Then Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk."
9. At once the man was healed. He picked up his mat and walked. The day this happened was a Sabbath.
10. So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath. The law does not allow you to carry your mat."
11. But he replied, "The one who made me well said to me, 'Pick up your mat and walk.' "
12. They asked him, "Who is this fellow? Who told you to pick it up and walk?"
13. The one who was healed had no idea who it was. Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.
14. Later Jesus found him at the temple. Jesus said to him, "See, you are well again. Stop sinning, or something worse may happen to you."
15. The man went away. He told the Jews it was Jesus who had made him well.
16. Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath day. So the Jews began to oppose him.
17. Jesus said to them, "My Father is always doing his work. He is working right up to this very day. I am working too."
18. For this reason the Jews tried even harder to kill him. Jesus was not only breaking the Sabbath. He was even calling God his own Father. He was making himself equal with God.
19. Jesus answered, "What I'm about to tell you is true. The Son can do nothing by himself. He can do only what he sees his Father doing. What the Father does, the Son also does.
20. This is because the Father loves the Son. He shows him everything he does. Yes, you will be amazed! The Father will show him even greater things than these.
21. "The Father raises the dead and gives them life. In the same way, the Son gives life to anyone he wants to.