1 Post hæc erat dies festus Judæorum, et ascendit Jesus Jerosolymam. 2 Est autem Jerosolymis probatica piscina, quæ cognominatur hebraice Bethsaida, quinque porticus habens. 3 In his jacebat multitudo magna languentium, cæcorum, claudorum, aridorum, exspectantium aquæ motum. 4 Angelus autem Domini descendebat secundum tempus in piscinam, et movebatur aqua. Et qui prior descendisset in piscinam post motionem aquæ, sanus fiebat a quacumque detinebatur infirmitate. 5 Erat autem quidam homo ibi triginta et octo annos habens in infirmitate sua. 6 Hunc autem cum vidisset Jesus jacentem, et cognovisset quia jam multum tempus haberet, dicit ei: Vis sanus fieri? 7 Respondit ei languidus: Domine, hominem non habeo, ut, cum turbata fuerit aqua, mittat me in piscinam: dum venio enim ego, alius ante me descendit. 8 Dicit ei Jesus: Surge, tolle grabatum tuum et ambula. 9 Et statim sanus factus est homo ille: et sustulit grabatum suum, et ambulabat. Erat autem sabbatum in die illo. 10 Dicebant ergo Judæi illi qui sanatus fuerat: Sabbatum est, non licet tibi tollere grabatum tuum. 11 Respondit eis: Qui me sanum fecit, ille mihi dixit: Tolle grabatum tuum et ambula. 12 Interrogaverunt ergo eum: Quis est ille homo qui dixit tibi: Tolle grabatum tuum et ambula? 13 Is autem qui sanus fuerat effectus, nesciebat quis esset. Jesus enim declinavit a turba constituta in loco. 14 Postea invenit eum Jesus in templo, et dixit illi: Ecce sanus factus es; jam noli peccare, ne deterius tibi aliquid contingat. 15 Abiit ille homo, et nuntiavit Judæis quia Jesus esset, qui fecit eum sanum. 16 Propterea persequebantur Judæi Jesum, quia hæc faciebat in sabbato. 17 Jesus autem respondit eis: Pater meus usque modo operatur, et ego operor. 18 Propterea ergo magis quærebant eum Judæi interficere: quia non solum solvebat sabbatum, sed et patrem suum dicebat Deum, æqualem se faciens Deo. Respondit itaque Jesus, et dixit eis: 19 Amen, amen dico vobis: non potest Filius a se facere quidquam, nisi quod viderit Patrem facientem: quæcumque enim ille fecerit, hæc et Filius similiter facit. 20 Pater enim diligit Filium, et omnia demonstrat ei quæ ipse facit: et majora his demonstrabit ei opera, ut vos miremini. 21 Sicut enim Pater suscitat mortuos, et vivificat, sic et Filius, quos vult, vivificat. 22 Neque enim Pater judicat quemquam: sed omne judicium dedit Filio, 23 ut omnes honorificent Filium, sicut honorificant Patrem; qui non honorificat Filium, non honorificat Patrem, qui misit illum. 24 Amen, amen dico vobis, quia qui verbum meum audit, et credit ei qui misit me, habet vitam æternam, et in judicium non venit, sed transiit a morte in vitam. 25 Amen, amen dico vobis, quia venit hora, et nunc est, quando mortui audient vocem Filii Dei: et qui audierint, vivent. 26 Sicut enim Pater habet vitam in semetipso, sic dedit et Filio habere vitam in semetipso: 27 et potestatem dedit ei judicium facere, quia Filius hominis est. 28 Nolite mirari hoc, quia venit hora in qua omnes qui in monumentis sunt audient vocem Filii Dei: 29 et procedent qui bona fecerunt, in resurrectionem vitæ; qui vero mala egerunt, in resurrectionem judicii. 30 Non possum ego a meipso facere quidquam. Sicut audio, judico: et judicium meum justum est, quia non quæro voluntatem meam, sed voluntatem ejus qui misit me. 31 Si ego testimonium perhibeo de meipso, testimonium meum non est verum. 32 Alius est qui testimonium perhibet de me: et scio quia verum est testimonium, quod perhibet de me. 33 Vos misistis ad Joannem, et testimonium perhibuit veritati. 34 Ego autem non ab homine testimonium accipio: sed hæc dico ut vos salvi sitis. 35 Ille erat lucerna ardens et lucens: vos autem voluistis ad horam exsultare in luce ejus. 36 Ego autem habeo testimonium majus Joanne. Opera enim quæ dedit mihi Pater ut perficiam ea: ipsa opera, quæ ego facio, testimonium perhibent de me, quia Pater misit me: 37 et qui misit me Pater, ipse testimonium perhibuit de me: neque vocem ejus umquam audistis, neque speciem ejus vidistis: 38 et verbum ejus non habetis in vobis manens: quia quem misit ille, huic vos non creditis. 39 Scrutamini Scripturas, quia vos putatis in ipsis vitam æternam habere: et illæ sunt quæ testimonium perhibent de me: 40 et non vultis venire ad me ut vitam habeatis. 41 Claritatem ab hominibus non accipio. 42 Sed cognovi vos, quia dilectionem Dei non habetis in vobis. 43 Ego veni in nomine Patris mei, et non accipitis me; si alius venerit in nomine suo, illum accipietis. 44 Quomodo vos potestis credere, qui gloriam ab invicem accipitis, et gloriam quæ a solo Deo est, non quæritis? 45 Nolite putare quia ego accusaturus sim vos apud Patrem: est qui accusat vos Moyses, in quo vos speratis. 46 Si enim crederetis Moysi, crederetis forsitan et mihi: de me enim ille scripsit. 47 Si autem illius litteris non creditis, quomodo verbis meis credetis?
John 5 Clementine Vulgate
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- 1 Deuteronomy 16:16; Exodus 23:14–17; Leviticus 23:2–4; Exodus 34:23; John 2:13
- 2 Nehemiah 12:39; Nehemiah 3:1; Isaiah 22:11; Nehemiah 3:32; John 19:13
- 3 Mark 3:1–4; Matthew 15:30; Luke 7:22; Zechariah 11:17; Lamentations 3:26
- 5 Acts 3:2; Luke 8:43; Mark 9:21; Luke 13:16; Acts 14:8
- 6 Luke 18:41; Hebrews 4:15; Hebrews 4:13; Isaiah 65:1; John 21:17
- 7 Psalm 72:12; Deuteronomy 32:36; 1 Corinthians 9:24; Psalm 142:4; 2 Corinthians 1:8–10
- 8 Luke 5:24; Matthew 9:6; Mark 2:11; Acts 9:34
- 9 Acts 3:7–8; John 9:14; Mark 3:2–4; Luke 13:10–16; Mark 5:41–42
- 10 Jeremiah 17:21; Luke 6:2; John 9:16; Mark 3:4; Luke 13:14
- 11 Mark 2:9–11; John 9:16
- 12 Matthew 21:23; Romans 10:2; Judges 6:29; 1 Samuel 14:38
- 13 Luke 4:30; Luke 24:31; John 8:59; John 14:9
- 14 John 8:11; Leviticus 26:23–24; Psalm 118:18; Nehemiah 9:28; Matthew 12:45
- 15 John 4:29; John 9:25; John 9:11–12; Mark 1:45; John 1:19
- 16 Acts 9:4–5; John 10:39; Mark 3:6; John 15:20; Matthew 12:13
- 17 John 9:4; John 14:10; Colossians 1:16; 1 Corinthians 12:6; Hebrews 1:3
- 18 John 10:30; John 10:33; John 19:7; John 8:58; John 14:23
- 19 John 12:49; John 8:28; John 14:10; John 10:18; John 5:28–30
- 20 John 3:35; Matthew 3:17; Proverbs 8:22–31; 2 Peter 1:17; John 15:15
- 21 Romans 8:11; Deuteronomy 32:39; John 11:25; Acts 26:8; Luke 7:14–15
- 22 John 5:27; Acts 17:31; 2 Corinthians 5:10; Matthew 28:18; Acts 10:42
- 23 1 John 2:23; Luke 10:16; Matthew 11:27; 2 John 9; John 15:23–24
- 24 John 3:36; 1 John 5:11–13; John 6:40; John 3:18; Romans 8:1
- 25 John 5:28; Ephesians 5:14; Ephesians 2:5; John 4:23; Colossians 2:13
- 26 John 11:26; John 1:4; John 14:6; Exodus 3:14; John 17:2–3
- 27 Acts 10:42; John 5:22; Acts 17:31; 1 Peter 3:22; Daniel 7:13–14
- 28 Revelation 20:12; 1 Thessalonians 4:14–17; Isaiah 26:19; John 11:24–25; Job 19:25–26
- 29 Daniel 12:2–3; Romans 2:6–10; Acts 24:15; Matthew 25:31–46; Luke 14:14
- 30 John 6:38; John 5:19; John 4:34; John 14:10; Matthew 26:39
- 31 Proverbs 27:2; John 8:54; Revelation 3:14; John 8:13–14
- 32 John 1:33; 1 John 5:6–9; John 8:17–18; Matthew 17:5; John 12:50
- 33 John 3:26–36; John 1:29–34; John 1:6–8; John 1:15–27
- 34 1 John 5:9; 1 Timothy 4:16; John 20:31; Luke 19:41–42; John 5:41
- 35 2 Peter 1:19; John 1:7–8; Matthew 11:11; Matthew 3:5–7; Luke 1:76–77
- 36 John 10:25; John 15:24; John 2:23; John 10:37–38; 1 John 5:9
- 37 John 8:18; Matthew 3:17; John 1:18; 1 Timothy 1:17; 1 Timothy 6:16
- 38 1 John 2:14; John 12:44–48; Deuteronomy 6:6–9; Proverbs 7:1–2; Isaiah 53:1–3
- 39 Luke 24:27; Luke 24:44; 2 Peter 1:19–21; Acts 26:22–23; Proverbs 8:33–34
- 40 John 3:19; John 1:11; Psalm 81:11; John 6:37; Matthew 23:37
- 41 John 7:18; John 8:50; John 5:44; John 5:34; 1 Thessalonians 2:6
- 42 1 John 4:20; 1 John 2:15; 1 John 3:17; John 2:25; Romans 8:7
- 43 Matthew 24:5; John 10:25; John 17:4–6; John 8:28–29; Hebrews 5:4–5
- 44 John 12:43; Romans 2:29; Philippians 2:3; Matthew 23:5; Romans 8:7–8
- 45 Romans 3:19–20; Galatians 3:10; Romans 2:12; 2 Corinthians 3:7–11; John 9:28–29
- 46 Deuteronomy 18:15; Deuteronomy 18:18–19; John 1:45; Luke 24:27; Numbers 24:17–18
- 47 Luke 16:31; Luke 16:29
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The lesson of the Gospel has just sounded in our ears, and made us intent to know what is the meaning of what has been read. This, I suppose, is looked for from me, this I promise, by the Lord's assistance, to explain as well as I can.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
John the evangelist, among his fellows and companions the other evangelists, received this special and peculiar gift from the Lord (on whose breast he reclined at the feast, hereby to signify that he was drinking deeper secrets from His inmost heart), to utter those things concerning the Son of God which may perhaps rouse the attentive minds of the little …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)
Great is the profit of the divine Scriptures, and all-sufficient is the aid which comes from them. And Paul declared this when he said, "Whatsoever things were written aforetime, were written aforetime for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come, that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope." ( Rom. xv.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 14 (1889)
But they cannot maintain this; otherwise their primary and original Ogdoad will be included in the number of Æons who suffered together. Moreover, there was also a certain other person healed by the Lord, after he had suffered for eight-and-thirty years: they ought therefore to affirm that the Æon who occupies the thirty-eighth place suffered.
… unto me, heal my soul, for I have sinned against Thee;" and not to abuse Thy goodness for a license to sin, but to remember the words of the Lord, "Behold, thou art made whole; sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." All of which salutary advice they endeavour to destroy when they say, "The cause of …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)