005:010 That day was a Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had
been cured, "It is the Sabbath: you must not carry your mat."
005:011 "He who cured me," he replied, "said to me, `Take up your
mat and walk.'"
005:012 "Who is it," they asked, "that said to you, `Take up your
mat and walk'?"
005:013 But the man who had been cured did not know who it was;
for Jesus had passed out unnoticed, there being a crowd
in the place.
005:014 Afterwards Jesus found him in the Temple and said to him,
"You are now restored to health. Do not sin any more,
or a worse thing may befall you."
005:015 The man went and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had restored
him to health;
005:016 and on this account the Jews began to persecute Jesus--
because He did these things on the Sabbath.
005:017 His reply to their accusation was, "My Father works unceasingly,
and so do I."
005:018 On this account then the Jews were all the more eager to put
Him to death--because He not only broke the Sabbath,
but also spoke of God as being in a special sense His Father,
thus putting Himself on a level with God.
005:019 "In most solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that the Son
can do nothing of Himself--He can only do what He sees
the Father doing; for whatever He does, that the Son does
in like manner.
005:020 For the Father loves the Son and reveals to Him all that He Himself
is doing. And greater deeds than these will He reveal to Him,
in order that you may wonder.
005:021 For just as the Father awakens the dead and gives them life,