John 5:11-23

¹¹“The man who cured me,” he answered, “said to me ‘Take up your mat and walk.’”

¹²“Who was it,” they asked, “that said to you ‘Take up your mat and walk’?”

¹³But the man who had been restored did not know who it was; for Jesus had moved away, because there was a crowd there.

¹⁴Afterward Jesus found the man in the Temple Courts, and said to him, “You are cured now; do not sin again, or something worse may happen to you.”

¹⁵The man went away, and told the authorities that it was Jesus who had cured him.

¹⁶And that was why they began to persecute Jesus — because he did things of this kind on the Sabbath.

¹⁷But Jesus replied, “My Father works to this very hour, and I work also.”

¹⁸This made the authorities all the more eager to kill him, because not only was he doing away with the Sabbath, but he actually called God his own Father — putting himself on an equality with God.

¹⁹So Jesus made this further reply, “In truth I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself; he does only what he sees the Father doing; whatever the Father does, the Son does also.

²⁰For the Father loves his Son, and shows him everything that he is doing; and he will show him still greater things — so that you will be filled with wonder.

²¹For, just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he pleases.

²²The Father himself does not judge any one, but has entrusted the work of judging entirely to his Son,

²³so that everyone may honour the Son, just as they honour the Father. The person who does not honour the Son fails to honour the Father who sent him.