16. And on account of this the Jews began to persecute Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.
17. But he answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”
18. So on account of this the Jews were seeking even more to kill him, because he not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.
19. So Jesus answered and said to them, “Truly, truly I say to you, the Son can do nothing from himself except what he sees the Father doing. For whatever that one does, these things also the Son does likewise.
20. For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything that he himself is doing. And greater works than these he will show him, so that you will be astonished.
21. For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them alive, thus also the Son makes alive whomever he wishes.
22. For the Father does not judge anyone, but he has given all judgment to the Son,
23. in order that all people will 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.
24. Truly, truly I say to you that the one who hears my word and who believes the one who sent me has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.
25. “Truly, truly I say to you, that an hour is coming—and now is here—when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and the ones who hear will live.
26. For just as the Father has life in himself, thus also he has granted to the Son to have life in himself.
27. And he has granted him authority to carry out judgment, because he is the Son of Man.