John 5:16-23 - Honoring The Father And The Son

¹⁶ And this was why the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did things like this on the sabbath. ¹⁷ The reply of Jesus was, "As my Father has continued working to this hour, so I work too." ¹⁸ But this only made the Jews more eager to kill him, because he not merely broke the sabbath but actually spoke of God as his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.

¹⁹ So Jesus made this answer to them: "Truly, truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, nothing but what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, the Son also does the same. ²⁰ The Father loves the Son and shows him all that he is doing himself. He will show him still greater deeds than these, to make you wonder; ²¹ for as the Father raises the dead and makes them live, so the Son makes anyone live whom he chooses. ²² Indeed the Father passes judgment on no one; he has committed the judgment which determines life or death entirely to the Son, ²³ that all men may honour the Son as they honour the Father. (He who does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent him.)