Question

What does John teach us about Jesus in John chapter 5?

Try to grasp the bigger picture of John 5 in order to draw theological conclusions from the chapter as a whole. This is important because it will provide building blocks for when we later look at John 6.

Answer 1

1 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a poll, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3 Here a great number of disabled people use to lie--the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.4 5 One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, 'Do you want to get well?'

7 Sir,' the invalid replied, 'I have no one to help me into the poll when the water is stirred. Well Imtrying to get in, someone else 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 cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this talk palace was a Sabbath, 10 and so the Jewish Ieaders side to the man who had been healed, 'It is the Sabbath; the low farbids you to carry your mat.' 11 But he replied,'The man who made me well said to me,'pick up your mat and wolk.' ' 12 So they asked him, 'Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and wolk?' 13 The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there. 14 Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him,'See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.' 15 The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well. 16 So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him. 17 In his defense Jesus said to them, 'My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.' 18 For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father,making himself equal with God.