But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”

(For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.)

Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool called Bethzatha in Aramaic, which has five covered walkways.

Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years.

Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

Jesus answered, “I am not possessed by a demon, but I honor my Father – and yet you dishonor me.

Then the Judeans replied, “You are not yet fifty years old! Have you seen Abraham?”

Many of them were saying, “He is possessed by a demon and has lost his mind! Why do you listen to him?”

When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been in the tomb four days already.

Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples – if you have love for one another.”

No one has greater love than this – that one lays down his life for his friends.

So Jesus said to them, “Children, you don’t have any fish, do you?” They replied, “No.”

He did not need anyone to testify about man, for he knew what was in man.

So he asked them the time when his condition began to improve, and they told him, “Yesterday at one o’clock in the afternoon the fever left him.”

When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized that the man had been disabled a long time already, he said to him, “Do you want to become well?”

nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent.

You study the scriptures thoroughly because you think in them you possess eternal life, and it is these same scriptures that testify about me,

“Here is a boy who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what good are these for so many people?”

The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

(Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against him.) Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.