John 5:1

New Revised Standard

After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
After this, a Jewish festival took place, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

King James Version (1611)
After this there was a feast of the Iewes, and Iesus went vp to Hierusalem.

King James Version
After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

English Standard Version
After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

New American Standard Bible
After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

New Century Version
Later Jesus went to Jerusalem for a special feast.

Amplified Bible
Later on there was a Jewish feast (festival), and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Legacy Standard Bible
After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Berean Standard Bible
Some time later there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Contemporary English Version
Later, Jesus went to Jerusalem for another Jewish festival.

Complete Jewish Bible
After this, there was a Judean festival; and Yeshua went up to Yerushalayim.

Darby Translation
After these things was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Easy-to-Read Version
Later, Jesus went to Jerusalem for a special Jewish festival.

Geneva Bible (1587)
After that, there was a feast of the Iewes, and Iesus went vp to Hierusalem.

George Lamsa Translation
AFTER these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Good News Translation
After this, Jesus went to Jerusalem for a religious festival.

Lexham English Bible
After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Literal Translation
After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

American Standard Version
After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Bible in Basic English
After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Hebrew Names Version
After these things, there was a feast of the Yehudim, and Yeshua went up to Yerushalayim.

International Standard Version
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Etheridge Translation
AFTER these there was a feast of the Jihudoyee, and Jeshu went up to Urishlem.

Murdock Translation
After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
After this, was there a feast day of the Iewes, and Iesus went vp to Hierusalem.

English Revised Version
After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

World English Bible
After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Weymouth's New Testament
After this there was a Festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Aftir these thingis ther was a feeste dai of Jewis, and Jhesus wente vp to Jerusalem.

Update Bible Version
After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Webster's Bible Translation
After this there was a feast of the Jews: and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

New English Translation
After this there was a Jewish feast, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

New King James Version
After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

New Living Translation
Afterward Jesus returned to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish holy days.

New Life Bible
Some time later, there was a religious gathering of the Jews. Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
After these things, was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up unto Jerusalem.

Douay-Rheims Bible
After these things was a festival day of the Jews: and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Revised Standard Version
After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
After that ther was a feast of the Iewes and Iesus went vp to Ierusalem.

Young's Literal Translation
After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Afterwarde, there was a feast of the Iewes, and Iesus wente vpto Ierusalem.

Mace New Testament (1729)
Some time after this the feast of the Jews being come, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

THE MESSAGE
Soon another Feast came around and Jesus was back in Jerusalem. Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there was a pool, in Hebrew called Bethesda, with five alcoves. Hundreds of sick people—blind, crippled, paralyzed—were in these alcoves. One man had been an invalid there for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him stretched out by the pool and knew how long he had been there, he said, "Do you want to get well?"

Simplified Cowboy Version
Later on, Jesus went back to Jerusalem for another Jewish festival.

Contextual Overview

¹ After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ² Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes. ³ In these lay many invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be made well?" 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 making my way, someone else steps down ahead of me." Jesus said to him, "Stand up, take your mat and walk." At once the man was made well, and he took up his mat and began to walk. Now that day was a sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "It is the sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your mat." But he answered them, "The man who made me well said to me, ‘Take up your mat and walk.'" They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take it up and walk'?" Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had disappeared in the crowd that was there. Later Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, "See, you have been made well! Do not sin any more, so that nothing worse happens to you." The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. Therefore the Jews started persecuting Jesus, because he was doing such things on the sabbath. But Jesus answered them, "My Father is still working, and I also am working." For this reason the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because he was not only breaking the sabbath, but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God. Jesus said to them, "Very truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise. The Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing; and he will show him greater works than these, so that you will be astonished. Indeed, just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes. The Father judges no one but has given all judgment to the Son, so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. Very truly, I tell you, anyone who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and does not come under judgment, but has passed from death to life. "Very truly, I tell you, the hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For just as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself; and he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man. Do not be astonished at this; for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice and will come out—those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation. "I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge; and my judgment is just, because I seek to do not my own will but the will of him who sent me. "If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true. There is another who testifies on my behalf, and I know that his testimony to me is true. You sent messengers to John, and he testified to the truth. Not that I accept such human testimony, but I say these things so that you may be saved. He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. But I have a testimony greater than John's. The works that the Father has given me to complete, the very works that I am doing, testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me. And the Father who sent me has himself testified on my behalf. You have never heard his voice or seen his form, and you do not have his word abiding in you, because you do not believe him whom he has sent. "You search the scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that testify on my behalf. ⁴ Yet you refuse to come to me to have life. I do not accept glory from human beings. But I know that you do not have the love of God in you. I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me; if another comes in his own name, you will accept him. How can you believe when you accept glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the one who alone is God? Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; your accuser is Moses, on whom you have set your hope. If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. But if you do not believe what he wrote, how will you believe what I say?" ⁵ One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. ⁶ When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be made well?" ⁷ 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 making my way, someone else steps down ahead of me." ⁸ Jesus said to him, "Stand up, take your mat and walk." ⁹ At once the man was made well, and he took up his mat and began to walk. Now that day was a sabbath. ¹⁰ So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "It is the sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your mat."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

John 2:13, Exodus 23:14-17, Exodus 34:23, Leviticus 23:2-4, Deuteronomy 16:16, Matthew 3:15, Galatians 4:4

Reciprocal: Judges 21:19 - a feast Luke 19:26 - That unto John 6:4 - General John 11:55 - passover

Cross-References

Genesis 2:4
These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created. In the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

Genesis 5:26
Methuselah lived after the birth of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:27
Thus all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years; and he died.

Genesis 6:9
These are the descendants of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.

Genesis 10:1
These are the descendants of Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth; children were born to them after the flood.

1 Chronicles 1:1
Adam, Seth, Enosh;

Ecclesiastes 7:29
See, this alone I found, that God made human beings straightforward, but they have devised many schemes.

Ecclesiastes 12:1
Remember your creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come, and the years draw near when you will say, "I have no pleasure in them";

Matthew 1:1
An account of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

1 Corinthians 11:7
For a man ought not to have his head veiled, since he is the image and reflection of God; but woman is the reflection of man.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

After this there was a feast of the Jews,.... After Christ had been in Samaria, which was four months ago, John 4:35, and had been in Galilee for that time, and had cured the nobleman's son, and had done other mighty works, the time came on for one of the three festivals of the Jews; either the feast of Pentecost, as some think; or as others, the feast of tabernacles; or rather, the feast of the passover, so called, in John 4:45 since John is very particular, in giving an account of the several passovers, in Christ's ministry:

and Jesus went up to Jerusalem; according to the law of God, which obliged all the males to appear there at that time; and to show his compliance with it, and obedience to it, whom it became to fulfil all righteousness; and this he did also, that he might have an opportunity of discoursing, and doing his miracles before all the people, which came at this time, from the several parts of the land.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A feast - Probably the Passover, though it is not certain. There were two other feasts - the Pentecost and the Feast of Tabernacles - at which all the males were required to be present, and it might have been one of them. It is of no consequence, however, which of them is intended.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER V.

The man who had been diseased thirty-eight years healed on

the Sabbath day, 1-9.

The Jews cavil, persecute Christ, and seek to kill him, because

he had done this cure on the Sabbath, 10-16.

Our Lord vindicates his conduct, and shows, from the testimony

of the Father, the Scriptures, John the Baptist, and his own

works, that he came from God, to be the light and salvation of

the world, 17-39.

He reproves the Jews for their obstinacy, 40;

hatred to God, 41, 42;

pride, 43, 44;

and disbelief of their own law, 45-47.

NOTES ON CHAP. V.

Verse John 5:1. A feast — This is generally supposed, by the best critics, to have been the feast of the passover, which was the most eminent feast among the Jews. In several excellent MSS. the article is added, η εορτη, THE feast, the grand, the principal festival. Petavius supposes that the feast of Purim, or lots, is here meant; and one MS. reads η σκηνοπηγια, the feast of Tabernacles. Several of the primitive fathers believe Pentecost to be intended; and they are followed by many of the moderns, because, in John 7:2, mention is made of the feast of Tabernacles, which followed Pentecost, and was about the latter end of our September; and, in John 10:22, mention is made of the feast of Dedication, which was held about the latter end of November. See Bp. Pearce. See John 10:22.

Calmet, however, argues that there is no other feast with which all the circumstances marked here so well agree as with the passover; and Bp. Newcome, who is of Calmet's opinion, thinks Bp. Pearce's argument concerning the succession of the feasts to be inconclusive; because it is assumed, not proved, that the three feasts which he mentions above must have happened in the same year. See much on the same subject in Bp. Newcome's notes to his Harmony, p. 15, c.

Lightfoot has observed, that the other evangelists speak very sparingly of our Lord's acts in Judea. They mention nothing of the passovers, from our Lord's baptism till his death, excepting the very last: but John points at them all. The first he speaks of, John 2:13 the third, John 6:4; the fourth, John 13:1; and the second in this place: for although he does not call it the passover, but a feast in general, yet the circumstances agree best with this feast; and our Lord's words, John 4:35, seem to cast light on this subject. See the note there.