¹⁸ The chief priests and the scribes^(A) heard it and started looking for a way to kill him. For they were afraid^(B) of him, because the whole crowd was astonished by his teaching.

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.

²⁷ Don’t work for the food that perishes^(A) but for the food that lasts for eternal life,^(B) which the Son of Man^(C) will give you, because God the Father^(D) has set his seal of approval on him.”