11. The man replied, “The man who made me well told me to pick up my cot and walk.”
12. The Jews asked him, “Who is the man who told you to pick it up and walk?”
13. But the man who had been healed didn’t know who Jesus was. (Jesus had withdrawn from the crowd.)
14. Later, Jesus met the man in the temple courtyard and told him, “You’re well now. Stop sinning so that something worse doesn’t happen to you.”
15. The man went back to the Jews and told them that Jesus was the man who had made him well.
16. The Jews began to persecute Jesus because he kept healing people on the day of worship.
17. Jesus replied to them, “My Father is working right now, and so am I.”
18. His reply made the Jews more intent on killing him. Not only did he break the laws about the day of worship, but also he made himself equal to God when he said repeatedly that God was his Father.
19. Jesus said to the Jews, “I can guarantee this truth: The Son cannot do anything on his own. He can do only what he sees the Father doing. Indeed, the Son does exactly what the Father does.