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plants and another harvests.’ And it’s true. 38 I sent
you to harvest where you didn’t plant; others had already done the work, and now you will get to gather
the harvest.”
“The secret to
‘doing it all’ is not
necessarily doing
it all, but rather
discovering which
part of the ‘all’ He
has given us to do
and doing all of
THAT.”
Many Samaritans Believe
Many Samaritans from the village believed in Jesus
because the woman had said, “He told me everything
I ever did!” 40 When they came out to see him, they
begged him to stay in their village. So he stayed for
two days, 41 long enough for many more to hear his
message and believe. 42 Then they said to the woman,
“Now we believe, not just because of what you told
us, but because we have heard him ourselves. Now
we know that he is indeed the Savior of the world.”
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Jesus Heals an Official’s Son
At the end of the two days, Jesus went on to Galilee.
He himself had said that a prophet is not honored
in his own hometown. 45 Yet the Galileans welcomed
him, for they had been in Jerusalem at the Passover
celebration and had seen everything he did there.
46As he traveled through Galilee, he came to Cana,
where he had turned the water into wine. There was
a government official in nearby Capernaum whose
son was very sick. 47 When he heard that Jesus had
come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged
Jesus to come to Capernaum to heal his son, who
was about to die.
48 Jesus asked, “Will you never believe in me unless
you see miraculous signs and wonders?”
49 The official pleaded, “Lord, please come now
before my little boy dies.”
50 Then Jesus told him, “Go back home. Your son
will live!” And the man believed what Jesus said and
started home.
51 While the man was on his way, some of his servants met him with the news that his son was alive
and well. 52 He asked them when the boy had begun
to get better, and they replied, “Yesterday afternoon
at one o’clock his fever suddenly disappeared!”
53 Then the father realized that that was the very
time Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” And he
and his entire household believed in Jesus. 54 This
was the second miraculous sign Jesus did in Galilee
after coming from Judea.
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Jesus Heals a Lame Man
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Afterward Jesus returned to Jerusalem for one
of the Jewish holy days. 2 Inside the city, near
the Sheep Gate, was the pool of Bethesda,* with five
covered porches. 3 Crowds of sick people—blind,
lame, or paralyzed—lay on the porches.* 5 One of the
men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years.
JOHN 5
JILL BR ISCOE
teacher, pastor, editor, and writer
When Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill for a
long time, he asked him, “Would you like to get well?”
7 “I can’t, sir,” the sick man said, “for I have no one
to put me into the pool when the water bubbles up.
Someone else always gets there ahead of me.”
8 Jesus told him, “Stand up, pick up your mat, and
walk!”
9 Instantly, the man was healed! He rolled up his
sleeping mat and began walking! But this miracle
happened on the Sabbath, 10 so the Jewish leaders
objected. They said to the man who was cured, “You
can’t work on the Sabbath! The law doesn’t allow you
to carry that sleeping mat!”
11 But he replied, “The man who healed me told me,
‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”
12 “Who said such a thing as that?” they demanded.
13 The man didn’t know, for Jesus had disappeared
into the crowd. 14 But afterward Jesus found him in
the Temple and told him, “Now you are well; so stop
sinning, or something even worse may happen to
you.” 15 Then the man went and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had healed him.
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Jesus Claims to Be the Son of God
So the Jewish leaders began harassing* Jesus for
breaking the Sabbath rules. 17 But Jesus replied, “My
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5:2 Other manuscripts read Beth-zatha; still others read Bethsaida. 5:3 Some manuscripts add an expanded conclusion to
verse 3 and all of verse 4: waiting for a certain movement of the water, 4for an angel of the Lord came from time to time and
stirred up the water. And the first person to step in after the water was stirred was healed of whatever disease he had. 5:16 Or
persecuting.
