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  EXPOSITORY THOUGHTS ON JOHN - JOHN 5:16-23
  by J.C. Ryle
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Responding to Jewish Authorities

Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish
authorities began persecuting him. So Jesus told them, "My Father is
working until now, and I too am working." For this reason the Jewish
authorities 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.

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. For the Father
loves the Son and shows him everything he does, and greater deeds than
these he will show him, so that you may be amazed. For just as the
Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life
to whomever he wishes. Furthermore, the Father does not judge anyone,
but has assigned all judgment to the Son, so that all people may honor
the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the
Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

These verses begin one of the most deep and solemn passages in the four
Gospels. They show us the Lord Jesus asserting His own Divine nature,
His unity with God the Father, and the high dignity of His office. No
where does our Lord dwell so fully on these subjects as in the chapter
before us. And no where, we must confess, do we find out so thoroughly
the weakness of man\

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/jc-ryle/expository-thoughts-on-john-john-516-23/
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