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# John 5

John 5 is chapter 5 of 21 in the Gospel of John. Here are all 47 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Christ heals on the sabbath the man languishing thirty-eight years. His discourse upon this occasion.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## John 5 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. After these things, there was a feast day of the Jews, and so Jesus ascended to Jerusalem.
2. Now at Jerusalem is the Pool of Evidence, which in Hebrew is known as the Place of Mercy; it has five porticos.
3. Along these lay a great multitude of the sick, the blind, the lame, and the withered, waiting for the movement of the water.
4. Now at times an Angel of the Lord would descend into the pool, and so the water was moved. And whoever descended first into the pool, after the motion of the water, he was healed of whatever infirmity held him.
5. And there was a certain man in that place, having been in his infirmity for thirty-eight years.
6. Then, when Jesus had seen him reclining, and when he realized that he had been afflicted for a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?”
7. The invalid answered him: “Lord, I do not have any man to put me in the pool, when the water has been stirred. For as I am going, another descends ahead of me.”
8. Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your stretcher, and walk.”
9. And immediately the man was healed. And he took up his stretcher and walked. Now this day was the Sabbath.
10. Therefore, the Jews said to the one who had been healed: “It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to take up your stretcher.”
11. He answered them, “The one who healed me, he said to me, ‘Take up your stretcher and walk.’”
12. Therefore, they questioned him, “Who is that man, who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk?’”
13. But the one who had been given health did not know who it was. For Jesus had turned aside from the crowd gathered in that place.
14. Afterwards, Jesus found him in the temple, and he said to him: “Behold, you have been healed. Do not choose to sin further, otherwise something worse may happen to you.”
15. This man went away, and he reported to the Jews that it was Jesus who had given him health.
16. Because of this, the Jews were persecuting Jesus, for he was doing these things on the Sabbath.
17. But Jesus answered them, “Even now, my Father is working, and I am working.”
18. And so, because of this, the Jews were seeking to kill him even more so. For not only did he break the Sabbath, but he even said that God was his Father, making himself equal to God.
19. Then Jesus responded and said to them: “Amen, amen, I say to you, the Son is not able to do anything of himself, but only what he has seen the Father doing. For whatever he does, even this does the Son do, similarly.
20. For the Father loves the Son, and he shows him all that he himself does. And greater works than these will he show him, so much so that you shall wonder.
21. For just as the Father raises the dead and gives life, so also does the Son give life to whomever he wills.
22. For the Father does not judge anyone. But he has given all judgment to the Son,
23. so that all may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son, does not honor the Father who sent him.
24. Amen, amen, I say to you, that whoever hears my word, and believes in him who sent me, has eternal life, and he does not go into judgment, but instead he crosses from death into life.
25. Amen, amen, I say to you, that the hour is coming, and it is now, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear it shall live.
26. For just as the Father has life in himself, so also has he granted to the Son to have life in himself.
27. And he has given him the authority to accomplish judgment. For he is the Son of man.
28. Do not be amazed at this. For the hour is coming in which all who are in the grave shall hear the voice of the Son of God.
29. And those who have done good shall go forth to the resurrection of life. Yet truly, those who have done evil shall go to the resurrection of judgment.
30. I am not able to do anything of myself. As I hear, so do I judge. And my judgment is just. For I do not seek my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
31. If I offer testimony about myself, my testimony is not true.
32. There is another who offers testimony about me, and I know that the testimony which he offers about me is true.
33. You sent to John, and he offered testimony to the truth.
34. But I do not accept testimony from man. Instead, I say these things, so that you may be saved.
35. He was a burning and shining light. So you were willing, at the time, to exult in his light.
36. But I hold a greater testimony than that of John. For the works which the Father has given to me, so that I may complete them, these works themselves that I do, offer testimony about me: that the Father has sent me.
37. And the Father who has sent me has himself offered testimony about me. And you have never heard his voice, nor have you beheld his appearance.
38. And you do not have his word abiding in you. For the one whom he sent, the same you would not believe.
39. Study the Scriptures. For you think that in them you have eternal life. And yet they also offer testimony about me.
40. And you are not willing to come to me, so that you may have life.
41. I do not accept glory from men.
42. But I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.
43. I have come in the name of my Father, and you do not accept me. If another will arrive in his own name, him you will accept.
44. How are you able to believe, you who accept glory from one another and yet do not seek the glory that is from God alone?
45. Do not consider that I might accuse you with the Father. There is one who accuses you, Moses, in whom you hope.
46. For if you were believing in Moses, perhaps you would believe in me also. For he wrote about me.
47. But if you do not believe by his writings, how will you believe by my words?”

## John 5 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

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?

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 583: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 575: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 574: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 589: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 409: The Fall ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 859: The Church Is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 679: To Judge the Living and the Dead ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1470: The Effects of This Sacrament ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 994: Christ's Resurrection and Ours ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 635: Christ Descended Into Hell ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 612: Jesus Died Crucified ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 679: To Judge the Living and the Dead ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1038: The Last Judgment ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 998: Christ's Resurrection and Ours ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2824: "Thy Will Be Done on Earth as It is in Heaven" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 719: The Spirit of Christ in the Fullness of Time ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 548: The Mysteries of Christ's Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 582: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 702: God's Spirit and Word in the Time of the Promises ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## The saints

- “Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ.” — St. Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah, prologue, c. 408 (On this verse: verse 39)
- “Learn the heart of God in the words of God.” — St. Gregory the Great, Letter to Theodore, c. 595 (On this theme: verse 39)

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 2: That is, the sheep pond; either so called, because the sheep were washed therein, that were to be offered up in sacrifice in the temple, or because it was near the sheep gate. That this was a pond where miracles were wrought is evident from the sacred text; and also that the water had no natural virtue to heal, as one only of those put in after the motion of the water was restored to health; for if the water had the healing quality, the others would have the like benefit, being put into it about the same time.
- Verse 29: That is, condemnation.
- Verse 39: Scrutamini. It is not a command for all to read the scriptures; but a reproach to the Pharisees, that reading the scriptures as they did, and thinking to find everlasting life in them, they would not receive him to whom all those scriptures gave testimony, and through whom alone they could have that true life.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Tue, Mar 9, 2027: Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent — Gospel, John 5:1-16
- Wed, Mar 10, 2027: Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Lent — Gospel, John 5:17-30
- Thu, Mar 11, 2027: Thursday of the Fourth Week of Lent — Gospel, John 5:31-47
- Tue, Mar 28, 2028 (computed): Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent — Gospel, John 5:1-16

2 more dates through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).