¹⁸ This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill him:^(A) Not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal to God.

¹² From that moment Pilate kept trying^[a] to release him. But the Jews shouted, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Anyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar!”

² In these last days,^(A) he has spoken to us by his Son. God has appointed him heir of all things^(B) and made the universe^[a](C) through him.