Hey guys, my name is Johnny Artivannis, and this is Dial-in. Throughout the first four chapters of this gospel,

John has provided many convincing proofs that Jesus is God. And today we're going to see the same,

yet now it'll be accompanied by a rising hostility towards Jesus of Nazareth.

Our passage today is John chapter 5, verses 1 through 17. Let's dial in.

Let's dial in. John chapter 5 versus 1 through 17.

After this there was a feast of the Jews and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem

by the sheep gate a pool in Ar Aramaic, called Bethesda,

which has five Ruth colonnades. And these lay a multitude of invalids, blind, lame, and paralyzed.

One man was there who had been an invalid for 38 years. When Gia saw him lying there and knew

that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, do you want to be healed?

The sick man answered him, sir, I have no one to put me into

the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going and other steps down before me,

Jesus said to him, get up, take up your bed, and walk. And at once the man was healed,

and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, it is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful

for you to pick up your bed. But he answered them, the man who healed me, that man said to me,

take up your bed and walk. They asked him, who is the man who said to you, take up your bed and walk?

Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn as there was a crowd in that place. Afterwards, Jesus found him in the temple and said to him,

See, you are well.

Sin no more that nothing worse may happen to you.

The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him.

And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

But Jesus answered them, my father is working until now, and I am working.

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