John 5:15-18

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.