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| The beginning of this chapter sets the seen often observed on ''Black Friday'' when people all rush to get into the stores to get the best deal for themselves. That is a spirit opposed to God but it is what you find in that temple of corruption.
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| Selfishness was a common theme of Jesus teachings such as the [[Good Samaritan]].
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| The Pharisees who had already unmoored the meaning of the [[sabbath]] as a way turning into a day. So they coplained about the previous cripple of 38 years carrying his bed and Jesus miraculously healing the man. The [[Sabbath]] had been about the [[Divine Will]] of working first and avoiding debt and corrupted the teachings of [[Moses]] with a bazar interpretations concerning [[leaven]]<Ref name="leavenp">{{leavenp}}</Ref> and [[covet]]ing<Ref name="jesuscovet ">{{jesuscovet }}</Ref> with their [[Corban]] had corrupted the temple as a den of thieves and the people with their [[covetous practices]] which was [[idolatry]].<Ref name="Isidolatry">{{Isidolatry}}</Ref>
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| V14 The crippled man had no family nor friends having been so crippled for 38 years and dependent upon the [[social welfare]] system/[[table]] of the temple set up by [[Herod]] and the [[Pharisees]] for his [[daily bread]].  Without any skills nor [[social bonds]] he had no [[network]] of unselfish people to help integrate him back into ''productive society'' so he remained in the temple where Jesus found him.
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| The treasury that had fed this severely crippled man was still the unrighteous [[mammon]] and that [[welfare]] support he received was still the [[wages of unrighteousness]] because they were the result of [[covetous practices]] which again is [[idolatry]].<Ref name="Isidolatry">{{Isidolatry}}</Ref>.
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| V16 "Jews persecute(ediōkon)<Ref name="dioko">{{1377}}</Ref> Jesus, and sought to slay<Ref name="apokteino">{{615}}</Ref> him" 
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|  "The words, ''"and sought to slay Him,"'' should be omitted. They have been inserted in some MSS. to explain the first clause of John 5:18." according to ''Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers''. But of course if you read ''Barnes' Notes on the Bible'' you can see, "To slay him - To put him to death. This they attempted to do because it was directed in the law of Moses, [[Exodus 31]]:15 "Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the [[sabbath]] of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be [[put to death]]."; [[Exodus 35]]:2 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a [[sabbath]] of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be [[put to death]]." See [[Put to death]].
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| [[Jesus]] taught  [[The Way]] for the people to live based on [[faith]], [[hope]] and [[fervent charity]] instead of [[force]], [[fear]] and the [[fealty]] that brought the people back under [[tribute]] and literally into the [[bondage of Egypt]]. This already caused  the [[Pharisees]] to hate them and what they were doing.
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|  Because [[Jesus]] and [[John the Baptist]] had opposed that system of [[Corban]] from the beginning of their [[Gospel of the kingdom]] frightened and angered many of the [[Factions at the altar|political factions]] at the [[Altar]].
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| [[Jesus]] and [[John the Baptist|John]] they knew [[legal charity]] through men who [[exercise authority]] has always ''made the word of God to none effect'' and weakened the poor like in the days of [[Sodom]]. 
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| '''Jesus forbid''' such systems.<Ref name="exauth">{{exauth}}</Ref> David and Paul warned that their [[tables]] of [[welfare]] were a [[snare]]. [[Proverbs]] tells is of the danger of an [[appetite]] for the [[dainties]] of rulers. [[Moses]] led the people out of that [[captivity]] which came from eating at those [[tables]].
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| John is written much different than [[Matthew]], [[Mark]], and [[Luke]] but covers much of the same [[Sound Doctrine]]. Jesus makes reference to the fact he is the son of a [[Father]] and therefor the [[Son of God]]. [[Augustus Caesar]] also claimed to be the [[Son of God]] and bestowed many [[benefits]] on the [[Pharisees]]<Ref>[[Augustus_Caesar#Mourning_Caesar]]</Ref> who saw him as a [[benefactors|benefactor]] and [[Patronus]] of the Jews.
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| [[John 5]] '''Verse 24''' the statement "heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me" is not just an [[ideology|ideological doctrine]] you say you accept as true. True [[faith]] compels action which result in a particular behavior. This why James states that [[faith]] without [[works]] is dead.<Ref name="deadworks">{{deadworks}}</Ref> <Br>Jesus explains what [[hear]]ing and believing looks like and does not look like. And warns all of the consequences of His ''executive authority'' in '''verse 27'''. Because he is sent by the [[Father]] who art in heaven and not by the [[fathers]]  or the [[Patronus]] of the earth.<Br> By '''verse 29''' Jesus will qualify what that [[faith]] looks like "And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation."<Br> This is no different than the context concerning being [[Born again]].<Br> If you do evil,([[John 3]]:20 "For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved."), if you are [[workers of iniquity]] you are rejected by God  no matter what you say you believe,
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| [[John the Baptist]] as a light and who some saw as the rightful high priest bore witness of Jesus as the one who is to come after him when he was gone but if Jesus had executive authority and held the office of [[Son of God]], priest and king, those who did not [[hear]] him were in danger of those "worse thing" mentioned in V14. 
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| We need to [[Hear]] the actual words of the real Jesus and becoming [[doers]] is our witness and not just say we are [[believer]]s.
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| By verse 44 he says they are not doing what Moses said which includes their interpretation of the [[Sabbath]], [[leaven]], [[steps]], [[breeches]], un[[hewn]] stones, etc.. 
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|By the end of the chapter we know that the Pharisees of that time had the Torah all wrong. John 5:47  "But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?" But they cannot see because they do not know the father and the truth is not in them.<Ref name="notruth">{{notruth}}</Ref>
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| '''Questions'''
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| Are you a real [[Believer]]?
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| If you not know what Jesus told us to do how can you [[doeth]] what He said?
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| If we are doing the [[Corban]] of the [[Pharisees]] do we deserve the rejection of Jesus despite the fact you say [[Lord Lord|Lord, Lord]]? 
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| If you are not a [[doer]] then can the [[Love]] of God [[abide]] in you?
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| Why don't the [[Modern Christians]] and Jews see that the modern version of that [[covet]]ous system of [[Corban]] in the form of  [[legal charity]] including the benefits of [[Social Security]] causes a break down of the [[family]] so that they do "no more to do ought for his father or his mother"?
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== The Healing at the Pool on the Sabbath ==

1 ¶  After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2  Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
3  In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
4  For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.

=== Crippled since the days of Herod ===

5  And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
6  When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Wilt thou be made whole?'''</Span>

=== The selfishness in the temple ===

7  The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
8  Jesus saith unto him, <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.'''</Span>
9  And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.

=== Blindness of Sabbath keepers ===

10  The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.
11  He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.
12  Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?
13  And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place.

=== Still sinning in the temple ===

14  Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.'''</Span>
15  The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole.
16  And therefore did the Jews persecute<Ref name="dioko">{{1377}}</Ref> Jesus, and sought to slay<Ref name="apokteino">{{615}}</Ref> him, because he had done these things on the [[sabbath]] day.

== Jesus Is Equal with God ==

17 ¶  But Jesus answered them, <span style="color:#FF0000">'''My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.'''</Span>
18  Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.


== The Authority of the Son ==

19  Then answered Jesus and said unto them, <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. 20  For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. 21  For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. 22  For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: 23  That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.'''</Span>

=== Need to hear===

24  <span style="color:#FF0000">''' Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. 25  Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the [[Son of God]]: and they that hear shall live. 26  For as the [[Father]] hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; 27  And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. 28  Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall [[hear]] his voice, 29  And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.'''</Span>

== Witnesses to Jesus ==

30  <span style="color:#FF0000">''' I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.'''</Span>

31 <span style="color:#FF0000">''' If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. 32  There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true. 33  Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth. 34  But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved. 35  He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.'''</Span>

=== Greater than John ===

36  <span style="color:#FF0000">''' But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me. 37  And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.'''</Span>

=== The word not in you ===

38  <span style="color:#FF0000">''' And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not. 39  Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have [[eternal life]]: and they are they which testify of me. 40  And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. 41  I receive not honour from men.'''</Span>

=== No love of God ===

42  <span style="color:#FF0000">''' But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you. 43  I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. 44  How can [[Believeth|ye believe]], which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?'''</Span>

=== Not Believers ===

45  <span style="color:#FF0000">''' Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even [[Moses]], in whom ye trust. 46  For had ye believed [[Moses]]<Ref name="knewmose">{{knewmose}}</Ref>, ye would have [[Believer|believed me]]: for he wrote of me. 47  But if [[Believer|ye believe not]] his writings, how shall ye believe my words?'''</Span>





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