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John 5:13-19 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

13. The one who was healed had no idea who it was. Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

14. Later Jesus found him at the temple. Jesus said to him, "See, you are well again. Stop sinning, or something worse may happen to you."

15. The man went away. He told the Jews it was Jesus who had made him well.

16. Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath day. So the Jews began to oppose him.

17. Jesus said to them, "My Father is always doing his work. He is working right up to this very day. I am working too."

18. For this reason the Jews tried even harder to kill him. Jesus was not only breaking the Sabbath. He was even calling God his own Father. He was making himself equal with God.

19. Jesus answered, "What I'm about to tell you is true. The Son can do nothing by himself. He can do only what he sees his Father doing. What the Father does, the Son also does.

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