14. After these things Jesus finds him in the temple, and said to him, Behold, thou art become well: sin no more, that something worse do not happen to thee.
15. The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
16. And for this the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill him, because he had done these things on sabbath.
17. But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto and I work.
18. For this therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he had not only violated the sabbath, but also said that God was his own Father, making himself equal with God.
19. Jesus therefore answered and said to them, Verily, verily, I say to you, The Son can do nothing of himself save whatever he sees the Father doing: for whatever things he does, these things also the Son does in like manner.
20. For the Father loves the Son and shews him all things which he himself does; and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may wonder.
21. For even as the Father raises the dead and quickens them, thus the Son also quickens whom he will:
22. for neither does the Father judge any one, but has given all judgment to the Son;
23. that all may honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He who honours not the Son, honours not the Father who has sent him.
24. Verily, verily, I say unto you, that he that hears my word, and believes him that has sent me, has life eternal, and does not come into judgment, but is passed out of death into life.
25. Verily, verily, I say unto you, that an hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that have heard shall live.
26. For even as the Father has life in himself, so he has given to the Son also to have life in himself,