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2:13-25 Near
the time of the Jewish feast of
the Passover Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found people selling oxen and sheep and doves. The coin dealers were also sitting
there. Having made a lash out
of ropes he expelled all of them out of the temple with both the sheep and
the oxen. As for the money
changers, he poured out their coins and over-turned the tables. To the people selling doves he said
"Take these things out of here.
Do not make my Father's house
into a market place."
(At
this time) his disciples remembered that it is written "The zeal for
your house will consume me."
(But) The Jews reacted to this and said to him "What sort of
sign (of authority) can you show us doing these things?" Jesus
answered "Destroy this
shrine and in three days I will raise it up (again)." The
Jews therefore said "It took forty-six
years to build this shrine and are you going to raise it up (again) in
three days? " But in fact
he (Jesus) was talking about the shrine of his body. When therefore he was raised
from the dead (later on) his disciples remembered that he had said
this. They believed in both the
Scripture passage and what had been said by Jesus.
While
Jesus was in Jerusalem
at the Passover feast many people believed in his name on seeing the signs
that he was working. But as for
Jesus himself He did not commit
himself to them because he understood people. Nobody needed to tell him about
people because he already knew.
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5:1-24 After these things (the cure of the courtier's son etc in Capernaum
Galilee) there was a Jewish feast
and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now in Jerusalem at the sheep gate, there is a
pool of water with five porches.
It is called in Hebrew Bethzatha. In these (porches) lay a crowd of
people with ailments - people who are blind, lame, withered (etc). Now there was a certain man who had
been there for thirty-eight years
with his ailment. When Jesus
saw this man lying there he already knew how long he had been there. He says to him "Would you like
to be made whole? The invalid
said "Sir, when the water is troubled (by a healing angel) I do not
have anyone to put me into the pool.
While I am coming towards it someone else goes down (to the pool)
before me." Jesus says to
him "Get up, take your mattress and walk." Immediately the man became cured and
he took his mattress and walked.
That
day it was a Sabbath. The Jews
therefore said to the one who had been healed. "Today it is a Sabbath day. It
is not lawful for you to carry a mattress." But the one who was cured answered
them saying "The man who cured me said to me "Pick up your mattress
and walk." They asked him
"Who is the man who told you to "Pick up (the mattress) and
walk?" The one who was cured did not know who it was, for Jesus had
withdrawn from the place because there was a crowd there.
(However)
after these things Jesus found (the one cured) in the temple and said to him. "Behold now you are whole (again)
do not sin anymore in case something worse happens to you." The man went away and told the Jews
that it was Jesus who had made him whole. The Jews therefore criticised Jesus
because he had done these things on a Sabbath. But he answered them (saying) "My Father works
right now (on a Sabbath) and I also work." Because of this therefore the Jews
sought to kill him, not only because he (apparently) broke the Sabbath
(day) but also because he had referred to God as his Father. By doing this he was making
himself equal to God.
Jesus therefore answered and said to them "Truly truly I tell
you the son cannot do anything from himself except what he sees the Father
doing. Whatever things (the
Father) does the Son does these things as well. The Father loves the Son and shows
him everything that he does.
Indeed he will show him even greater works than these that you may
marvel (about it). For, just as
the Father raises the dead and gives life, so also the Son gives life to
those whom he wills. Also, it
is not the Father who judges.
Rather he has given all judgment to the Son so that all people may
honour the Son just as they honour the Father. The one who does not honour the Son
does not honour the Father who has sent him. “Truly truly I tell you the
person who hears my word and who believes in the one who has sent me, has
eternal jlife. They will not
come into judgement but rather pass over out of death into
life.”
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