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John 5:18

Weymouth NT

On this account then the Jews were all the more eager to put Him to death–because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also spoke of God as being in a special sense His Father, thus putting Himself on a level with God.

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And have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the Temple break the Sabbath without incurring guilt?

This also is John's testimony, when the Jews sent to him a deputation of Priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him who he was.

I and the Father are one.«

»For no good deed,« the Jews replied, »are we going to stone you, but for blasphemy, and because you, who are only a man, are making yourself out to be God.«

»If any one loves me,« replied Jesus, »he will obey my teaching; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

»Have I been so long among you,« Jesus answered, »and yet you, Philip, do not know me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you ask me, `Cause us to see the Father'?

»We,« replied the Jews, »have a Law, and in accordance with that Law he ought to die, for having claimed to be the Son of God.«

The man went and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had restored him to health;

and on this account the Jews began to persecute Jesus–because He did these things on the Sabbath.

His reply to their accusation was, »My Father works unceasingly, and so do I.«

that all may honour the Son even as they honour the Father. The man who withholds honour from the Son withholds honour from the Father who sent Him.

After this Jesus moved from place to place in Galilee. He would not go about in Judaea, because the Jews were seeking an opportunity to kill Him.

Did not Moses give you the Law? And yet not a man of you obeys the Law. Why do you want to kill me?«

»Were I to glorify myself,« answered Jesus, »I should have no real glory. There is One who glorifies me–namely my Father, who you say is your God.

»In most solemn truth,« answered Jesus, »I tell you that before Abraham came into existence, I am.«

Although from the beginning He had the nature of God He did not reckon His equality with God a treasure to be tightly grasped.

Then he showed me the river of the Water of Life, bright as crystal, issuing from the throne of God and of the Lamb.

»In future there will be no curse,« he said, »but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in that city. And His servants will render Him holy service and will see His face,




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