14. Later, Jesus found the man at the Temple and said to him, “See, you are well now. Stop sinning so that something worse does not happen to you.”
15. Then the man left and told his people that Jesus was the one who had made him well.
16. Because Jesus was doing this on the Sabbath day, some evil people began to persecute him.
17. But Jesus said to them, “My Father never stops working, and so I keep working, too.”
18. This made them try still harder to kill him. They said, “First Jesus was breaking the law about the Sabbath day. Now he says that God is his own Father, making himself equal with God!”
19. But Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing alone. The Son does only what he sees the Father doing, because the Son does whatever the Father does.
20. The Father loves the Son and shows the Son all the things he himself does. But the Father will show the Son even greater things than this so that you can all be amazed.
21. Just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to those he wants to.
22. In fact, the Father judges no one, but he has given the Son power to do all the judging
23. so that all people will honor the Son as much as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
24. “I tell you the truth, whoever hears what I say and believes in the One who sent me has eternal life. That person will not be judged guilty but has already left death and entered life.
25. I tell you the truth, the time is coming and is already here when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will have life.
26. Life comes from the Father himself, and he has allowed the Son to have life in himself as well.
27. And the Father has given the Son the approval to judge, because he is the Son of Man.