John 5:9-21

⁹Immediately the man was healed. He picked up his mat and started walking. Now the day that this happened was the Sabbath.

¹⁰So the Jews said to the man who'd been healed, “This is the Sabbath! It's against the law to carry a mat!”

¹¹“The man who healed me told me to pick up my mat and start walking,” he replied.

¹²“Who's this person who told you to carry your mat and walk?” they asked.

¹³However, the man who'd been healed didn't know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the surrounding crowd.

¹⁴Later on Jesus found the man in the Temple, and told him, “Look, now you've been healed. So stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.”

¹⁵The man went and told the Jews it was Jesus who had healed him.

¹⁶So the Jews started to harass Jesus because he was doing things on the Sabbath.

¹⁷But Jesus told them, “My Father is still working, and so am I.”

¹⁸This was why the Jews tried even harder to kill him, for not only did he break the Sabbath but also called God his Father, making himself equal with God.

¹⁹Jesus explained to them, “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can only do what he sees the Father doing. Whatever the Father does the Son does as well.

²⁰For the Father loves the Son, and reveals to him everything he does; and the Father will show to him even more incredible things that will completely amaze you.

²¹For just as the Father gives life to those he resurrects from the dead, in the same way the Son also gives life to those that he wants.