16. So they began to persecute Jesus, because he had done this healing on a Sabbath.
17. Jesus answered them, “My Father is always working, and I too must work.”
18. This saying made the Jewish authorities all the more determined to kill him; not only had he broken the Sabbath law, but he had said that God was his own Father and in this way had made himself equal with God.
19. So Jesus answered them, “I am telling you the truth: the Son can do nothing on his own; he does only what he sees his Father doing. What the Father does, the Son also does.
20. For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. He will show him even greater things to do than this, and you will all be amazed.
21. Just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, in the same way the Son gives life to those he wants to.
22. Nor does the Father himself judge anyone. He has given his Son the full right to judge,
23. so that all will honour the Son in the same way as they honour the Father. Whoever does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent him.