8. Jesus said to him, “Stand up! Pick up your mat and walk.”
9. Immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his mat and started walking. (Now that day was a Sabbath.)
10. So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat.”
11. But he answered them, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”
12. They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk’?”
13. But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped out, since there was a crowd in that place.
14. After this Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “Look, you have become well. Don’t sin any more, lest anything worse happen to you.”
15. The man went away and informed the Jewish leaders that Jesus was the one who had made him well.
16. Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him.
17. So he told them, “My Father is working until now, and I too am working.”
18. For this reason the Jewish leaders were trying even harder to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.
19. So Jesus answered them, “I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.