DaySpring Hope & Encouragement Bible - Flipbook - Page 99
J ohn 5
1470
‘One 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.”
Many Samaritans Believe
39 Many Samaritans from the village believed in J
esus 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.”
Jesus Heals an Official’s Son
43 At the end of the two days, Jesus went on to Galilee. 44 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.
46 As 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 J esus 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.
Jesus Heals a Lame Man
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 p
eople—blind, lame, or p
aralyzed—lay on
the porches.* 5 One of the men lying there had been sick for t hirty-eight years.
6 When J
esus 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
5
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.
