9. Instantly, the man was healed! He rolled up his sleeping mat and began walking! But this miracle happened on the Sabbath,
10. so the Jewish leaders objected. They said to the man who was cured, “You can’t work on the Sabbath! The law doesn’t allow you to carry that sleeping mat!”
11. But he replied, “The man who healed me told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”
12. “Who said such a thing as that?” they demanded.
13. The man didn’t know, for Jesus had disappeared into the crowd.
14. But afterward Jesus found him in the Temple and told him, “Now you are well; so stop sinning, or something even worse may happen to you.”
15. Then the man went and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had healed him.
16. So the Jewish leaders began harassing Jesus for breaking the Sabbath rules.
17. But Jesus replied, “My Father is always working, and so am I.”
18. So the Jewish leaders tried all the harder to find a way to kill him. For he not only broke the Sabbath, he called God his Father, thereby making himself equal with God.
19. So Jesus explained, “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself. He does only what he sees the Father doing. Whatever the Father does, the Son also does.
20. For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he is doing. In fact, the Father will show him how to do even greater works than healing this man. Then you will truly be astonished.
21. For just as the Father gives life to those he raises from the dead, so the Son gives life to anyone he wants.
22. In addition, the Father judges no one. Instead, he has given the Son absolute authority to judge,
23. so that everyone will honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son is certainly not honoring the Father who sent him.