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John 5 — Greek text and reception

Saints Translation: John 1–21 [V2]

Each card preserves the Greek reading and its textual and reception notes. This source provides a Greek study edition; Hebrew counterparts and Hebrew–Greek classifications are not supplied.

Chapter 5

Healing at Bethesda and the Son’s works and testimony

Verse 5:1

Greek–English Saints Priority

After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The feast is not named in this verse; no identification as Passover or another festival is supplied. Reception: A017 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:2

Greek–English Saints Priority

Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool called Bethesda in Hebrew, having five porticoes.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The source names Bethesda. ‘Gate’ supplies the understood noun after the adjective προβατικῇ, relating to sheep. ‘In Hebrew’ follows the narrator’s language label, without silently relabeling it. Reception: A017 (see the passage reception register).

Textual: NA28 reads Βηθζαθά (SBLGNT Βηθεσδά); the rendering above follows SBLGNT and would read “a pool called Bethzatha” under NA28 (collated against TAGNT edition marks, not a printed NA28 apparatus).

Verse 5:3

Greek–English Saints Priority

In these lay a multitude of the sick, the blind, the lame, and those with withered limbs.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The source ends the verse after the list of infirm people. It has no waiting-for-water clause and no verse 5:4; the translation resumes at 5:5. Reception: A017 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:5

Greek–English Saints Priority

And a certain man was there who had been in his illness for thirty-eight years.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The thirty-eight years describe the duration of illness, not the man’s age. Reception: A017 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:6

Greek–English Saints Priority

Jesus, seeing him lying there and knowing that he had already been that way a long time, said to him, “Do you want to become well?”

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: Jesus’ knowledge of the long illness precedes His question about the man’s desire for healing. Reception: A017 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:7

Greek–English Saints Priority

The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no person to put me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am coming, someone else goes down before me.”

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The man’s statement refers to the water being stirred; the base does not supply an angelic cause. That absence is not filled from another edition. Reception: A017 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:8

Greek–English Saints Priority

Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your mat, and walk.”

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The commands distinguish rising, carrying the mat and walking; κράβαττος is portable bedding. Reception: A017 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:9

Greek–English Saints Priority

And at once the man became well, took up his mat, and walked. Now it was a Sabbath on that day.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: Immediate healing is followed by obedience; the Sabbath notice introduces the ensuing dispute. Reception: A017 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:10

Greek–English Saints Priority

So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is a Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up the mat.”

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The speakers object specifically to carrying the mat on the Sabbath. Reception: A017 (see the passage reception register).

Textual: NA28 reads ἆραι τὸν κράβαττόν σου (SBLGNT ἆραι τὸν κράβαττον); the rendering above follows SBLGNT and would read “to take up your mat” under NA28 (collated against TAGNT edition marks, not a printed NA28 apparatus).

Verse 5:11

Greek–English Saints Priority

But he answered them, “The One who made me well said to me, ‘Take up your mat and walk.’”

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The healed man grounds his carrying in the command of the One who healed him. Reception: A017 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:12

Greek–English Saints Priority

So they asked him, “Who is the man who told you, ‘Take it up and walk’?”

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: Their question seeks the identity of the man who issued the disputed command. Reception: A017 (see the passage reception register).

Textual: NA28 reads ἠρώτησαν αὐτόν (SBLGNT ἠρώτησαν οὖν αὐτόν); the rendering above follows SBLGNT and would read “They asked him” under NA28 (collated against TAGNT edition marks, not a printed NA28 apparatus).

Verse 5:13

Greek–English Saints Priority

But the man who had been healed did not know who He was, for Jesus had slipped away, since there was a crowd in the place.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The narrator explains the man’s ignorance of Jesus’ identity by Jesus’ withdrawal amid a crowd. Reception: A017 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:14

Greek–English Saints Priority

After these things Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “Behold, you have become well. Sin no more, so that something worse may not happen to you.”

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The warning links future sin with something worse happening, but does not specify the man’s earlier sin or explain every illness by personal wrongdoing. Reception: A017 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:15

Greek–English Saints Priority

The man went away and reported to the Jews that it was Jesus who made him well.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The man identifies Jesus as his healer; no motive for reporting Him is expressly supplied. Reception: A017 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:16

Greek–English Saints Priority

And for this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, because He did these things on a Sabbath.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The verse states persecution on account of Sabbath activity; the following verse eighteen expressly speaks of seeking to kill Him. Reception: A017 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:17

Greek–English Saints Priority

But He answered them, “My Father works until now, and I work.”

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: Father and Son are both described by the same present verb for working. Reception: A017 (see the passage reception register).

Textual: NA28 reads ὁ δὲ [Ἰησοῦς] ἀπεκρίνατο αὐτοῖς (SBLGNT ὁ δὲ ἀπεκρίνατο αὐτοῖς); the rendering above follows SBLGNT and would read “But Jesus answered them” under NA28 (collated against TAGNT edition marks, not a printed NA28 apparatus).

Verse 5:18

Greek–English Saints Priority

For this reason, therefore, the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God His own Father, making Himself equal to God.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: ‘His own Father’ and ‘equal to God’ are explicit. The narrative’s explanation of the conflict is retained without turning either expression into a mere editorial summary. Reception: A017 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:19

Greek–English Saints Priority

So Jesus answered them, “Amen, amen, I tell you: the Son can do nothing from Himself unless He sees the Father doing it. For whatever He does, the Son also does these things in the same way.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The inability to act ‘from Himself’ is joined to doing whatever the Father does in the same way. Both sides are retained; no later doctrinal formula replaces their wording. Reception: A019 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:20

Greek–English Saints Priority

For the Father loves the Son and shows Him everything He Himself does, and He will show Him works greater than these, so that you may marvel.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: φιλεῖ is the verb for the Father’s love here, whereas 3:35 has ἀγαπᾷ. Both are rendered love; a rigid difference of intensity is not assumed from the vocabulary alone. Reception: A019 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:21

Greek–English Saints Priority

For just as the Father raises the dead and gives life, so also the Son gives life to whom He wills.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The parallel affirms life-giving by both Father and Son, expressly including the Son’s will. Reception: A019 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:22

Greek–English Saints Priority

For the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: “All judgment” is comprehensive; the sentence’s purpose continues into the following verse. Reception: A019 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:23

Greek–English Saints Priority

so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: Honor for the Son is measured by honor for the Father; withholding one entails withholding the other. Reception: A019 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:24

Greek–English Saints Priority

Amen, amen, I tell you: the one who hears My word and believes the One who sent Me has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The perfect μεταβέβηκεν is ‘has passed,’ a completed transition expressed in the present discourse, not only a future promise. Reception: A022 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:25

Greek–English Saints Priority

Amen, amen, I tell you: an hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The coming hour is also now present; the life-giving voice is that of the Son of God. Reception: A022 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:26

Greek–English Saints Priority

For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He also gave the Son to have life in Himself.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: Having life “in Himself” is repeated for Father and Son, while the Father’s giving remains explicit. Reception: A022 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:27

Greek–English Saints Priority

And He gave Him authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of Man.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: υἱὸς ἀνθρώπου lacks articles here. ‘Son of Man’ follows the discourse’s established title; the anarthrous form is recorded rather than resolved into a different person. Reception: A022 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:28

Greek–English Saints Priority

Do not marvel at this, because an hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs will hear His voice

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The scope is all in the tombs; their hearing leads directly to the emergence described in 5:29. Reception: A022 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:29

Greek–English Saints Priority

and come out: those who did good things to a resurrection of life, but those who practiced base things to a resurrection of judgment.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The two resurrections are described as life and judgment, with actions stated for both groups. No additional timetable is supplied. Reception: A022 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:30

Greek–English Saints Priority

I can do nothing from Myself. As I hear, I judge, and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of the One who sent Me.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: Jesus repeats His inability to act independently, linking righteous judgment to seeking the Sender’s will. Reception: A022 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:31

Greek–English Saints Priority

If I bear witness concerning Myself, My testimony is not true.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: ‘Not true’ retains ἀληθής. The surrounding testimony argument may concern accepted or established witness, but the translation does not substitute that interpretation for the adjective. Reception: A023 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:32

Greek–English Saints Priority

There is Another who bears witness concerning Me, and I know that the testimony He bears concerning Me is true.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: Capitalization reads the Other as the Father in the developed witness argument, especially verse thirty-seven. The verse itself says ‘another’ without a repeated name. Reception: A023 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:33

Greek–English Saints Priority

You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The hearers’ prior mission to John is appealed to as testimony already available to them. Reception: A023 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:34

Greek–English Saints Priority

But I do not receive testimony from a person; rather, I say these things so that you may be saved.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: Jesus distinguishes His own source of testimony from the saving purpose of mentioning human testimony. Reception: A023 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:35

Greek–English Saints Priority

He was the lamp that burned and shone, and you were willing to rejoice for an hour in his light.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: John is a lamp, λύχνος, not identified as the Light denied to him in 1:8. ‘For an hour’ retains the limited-period image. Reception: A023 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:36

Greek–English Saints Priority

But I have testimony greater than John’s: for the works the Father has given Me to complete, the very works I do, bear witness concerning Me that the Father has sent Me.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The Father-given works are themselves witnesses to the sending of Jesus. Reception: A023 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:37

Greek–English Saints Priority

And the Father who sent Me has Himself testified concerning Me. You have never heard His voice or seen His form,

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The Father is explicitly the witness; the hearers’ failure to hear or see continues into 5:38. Reception: A023 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:38

Greek–English Saints Priority

and you do not have His word remaining in you, because you do not believe the One He sent.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: Unbelief toward the Sent One explains the absence of the Father’s abiding word within them. Reception: A023 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:39

Greek–English Saints Priority

You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness concerning Me.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: ἐραυνᾶτε has identical indicative and imperative forms. ‘You search’ reads it as a statement; ‘Search’ remains a possible command. Reception: A023 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:40

Greek–English Saints Priority

Yet you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The obstacle is unwillingness to come; obtaining life is the stated purpose of coming. Reception: A023 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:41

Greek–English Saints Priority

I do not receive glory from people,

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: δόξα here concerns glory or recognition from human beings, anticipating 5:44. Reception: C041 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:42

Greek–English Saints Priority

but I know you, that you do not have the love of God within yourselves.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: ‘The love of God’ leaves open whether the genitive chiefly concerns love for God or God’s love within them; the text is not expanded to decide it. Reception: C041 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:43

Greek–English Saints Priority

I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The contrast is coming in the Father’s name versus another’s own name; the latter person is not named. Reception: C041 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:44

Greek–English Saints Priority

How can you believe, receiving glory from one another, and not seeking the glory that comes from the only God?

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: Mutual human acclaim is contrasted with glory from the only God as a barrier to belief. Reception: C041 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:45

Greek–English Saints Priority

Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. There is one who accuses you: Moses, in whom you have set your hope.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: Moses, the object of their hope, is named as accuser; the text does not add a separate speech by him. Reception: C041 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:46

Greek–English Saints Priority

For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote concerning Me.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The saying identifies Moses’ writing as concerning Jesus, without naming a single passage or reconstructing a list. Reception: C041 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 5:47

Greek–English Saints Priority

But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The concluding question contrasts Moses’ writings with Jesus’ spoken words while linking their credibility. Reception: C041 (see the passage reception register).