15. The man went and proclaimed to the Jewish leaders that Jesus was the man who had made him well.
16. As a result, the Jewish leaders were harassing Jesus, since he had done these things on the Sabbath.
17. Jesus replied, "My Father is still working, and I am working too."
18. For this reason the Jewish leaders wanted even more to kill him—not only because he was doing away with the Sabbath but also because he called God his own Father, thereby making himself equal with God.
19. Jesus responded to the Jewish leaders, “I assure you that the Son can’t do anything by himself except what he sees the Father doing. Whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.
20. The Father loves the Son and shows him everything that he does. He will show him greater works than these so that you will marvel.
21. As the Father raises the dead and gives life, so too does the Son give life to whomever he wishes.
22. The Father doesn’t judge anyone, but he has given all judgment to the Son
23. so that everyone will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him.
24. “I assure you that whoever hears my word and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life and won’t come under judgment but has passed from death into life.
25. “I assure you that the time is coming—and is here!—when the dead will hear the voice of God’s Son, and those who hear it will live.
26. Just as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in himself.
27. He gives the Son authority to judge, because he is the Human One.
28. Don’t be surprised by this, because the time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice.
29. Those who did good things will come out into the resurrection of life, and those who did wicked things into the resurrection of judgment.
30. I can’t do anything by myself. Whatever I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just. I don’t seek my own will but the will of the one who sent me.
31. “If I testify about myself, my testimony isn’t true.
32. There is someone else who testifies about me, and I know his testimony about me is true.
33. You sent a delegation to John, and he testified to the truth.
34. Although I don’t accept human testimony, I say these things so that you can be saved.
35. John was a burning and shining lamp, and, at least for a while, you were willing to celebrate in his light.