Ref; John;5;16-30. (NIV).
Jesus is persecuted for healing on the sabbath. This is because, according to Jews, the sabbath was holy
and a day of rest when no one was supposed to work on that day, even the Lord of the sabbath, Jesus
Christ. Therefore, Jesus responds to the persecution by making it clear that, His father is always
working so He too has to keep working. This shows us that, working according to Jesus is to intervene
in the needs of mankind. This intervention overrides keeping the sabbath because man was not
made for the sabbath, but rather the Sabbath was made for man. So Jesus as the son of man, could not
allow the sabbath to rule him. The Jews respond to the position of Jesus with disgust and they plan
even to kill Him because of two things; He was healing on a sabbath and second He was calling
Himself the son of God. About this Jesus makes it very clear that He can do nothing by Himself. He
does what He sees His Father doing. The Father loves the Son and shows Him all He does. Just like in
an ordinary life setting, a father will always show the son what he does. Similarly, Jesus uses this
parallel to make it clear about His relationship with the father. The Father raises the dead and gives
them life, even so, the son gives life to whomsoever He is pleased with. All judgment is vested on
Jesus so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the father.
Those who do not honor the son, they don't honor the Father who sent him.
He who hears the words of Jesus, and believes in the one who sent Him has eternal life already and will
not be condemned. He has passed from death to life. Those who believe in the words of Jesus and in
the one who sent Him, God the Father, they have life eternal. A time has come when the dead will hear
the voice of the son of God, and those who hear will live. As the Father has life in Himself he has
graded the Son to have life in himself. and He has graded Him the authority to judge because He is the
Son of Man. This life overcomes the grave and goes to eternity. A time will come when all who are in
the grave will hear His voice and come out. Those who have done evil will be condemned. Those who
have done good will rais to life. Jesus seeks to please the one who sent Him.
