¹⁷ But Jesus^[a] answered them, “My Father has been working until now, and I, too, am working.” ¹⁸ So the Jewish leaders^[b] were trying all the harder to kill him, because he was not only breaking the Sabbath but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.

The Authority of the Son

¹⁹ Jesus told them, “Truly, I tell all of you^[c] emphatically, the Son can do nothing on his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing, What the Father does, the Son does likewise.