12. They asked him, “Who is the man who told you to pick up your mat and walk?”
13. But the man who had been healed did not know who it was. There were many people there, and Jesus had left.
14. Later, Jesus found the man at the Temple and said to him, “See, you are well now. But stop sinning or something worse may happen to you!”
15. Then the man left and went back to the Jews who questioned him. He told them that Jesus was the one who made him well.
16. Jesus was doing all this on the Sabbath day. So these Jews began trying to make him stop.
17. But he said to them, “My Father never stops working, and so I work too.”
18. This made them even more determined to kill him. They thought it was bad enough that he was breaking the law about the Sabbath day. And now he was saying that God is his Father, making himself equal with God!
19. But Jesus answered, “I assure you that the Son can do nothing alone. He does only what he sees his Father doing. The Son does the same things that the Father does.
20. The Father loves the Son and shows him everything he does. This man was healed. But the Father will show the Son greater things than this to do. Then you will all be amazed.
21. The Father raises the dead and gives them life. In the same way, the Son gives life to those he wants to.
22. “Also, the Father judges no one. He has given the Son power to do all the judging.
23. God did this so that all people will respect the Son the same as they respect the Father. Anyone who does not respect the Son does not respect the Father. He is the one who sent the Son.
24. “I assure you, anyone who hears what I say and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life. They will not be judged guilty. They have already left death and have entered into life.