Who is Jesus? Chapter 25 The Healing at the Pool on the Sabbath

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Who is Jesus? Chapter 25 - The Healing at the Pool on the Sabbath  
(Today's happening is taken from John chapter five: ESV)

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 Aramaic  called Bethesda, which has five roofed porches.  In these lay a multitude of invalids; blind, lame, and paralyzed.  One man was there who had been crippled for thirty-eight years.  

When Jesus 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 another 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 against the law for you to take up your bed today.”  But he answered them, “The man who healed me, that man told me to ‘Take up my 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  Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a large crowd in the place. 

 Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you have been made whole! Sin no more, so that nothing worse may happen to you.”  The man went away and told the Religious Leaders that it was Jesus who had healed him.  And this was the reason 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.”

This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

Jesus began to tell the Religious Leaders where he received his authority and said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing.  For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.   For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that He himself is doing. And greater works than these will he show him, so that you may marvel. 

Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.  I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me receives eternal life; and he does not come into judgment, but has passed from spiritual death to eternal life.

For 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 God.  

Jesus continued to speak to the Religious Leaders: "For the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father has sent me.  You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,  Yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.  For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me.  But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”

Today we have heard Jesus testify of himself, that all He did was a direct command from our Father God, and if we seriously take these Words and believe in Jesus as God's son, we shall pass from spiritual death to eternal life.  

A wise person will say Yes to Jesus.  I believe and I receive your everlasting life, come into my life and I will follow you always.