“And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.”
But Jesus answered them, 'My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too, am working.' — Jesus' defense invokes the Father's continuous creative work (noetic act implied from Genesis 2:3: God rested but presumably creation continues through divine sustaining). If the Father works on the Sabbath, Jesus (as the Son) likewise works. This argument appears shocking: Jesus claims to share the Father's prerogative.
Church Fathers on John 5:16
The man, when healed, did not proceed to the market place, or give himself up to pleasure or vain glory, but, which was a great mark of religion, went to the temple: Afterward Jesus finds him in the temple.
The Lord Jesus saw him both in the crowd, and in the temple. The impotent man does not recognize Jesus in the crowd; but in the temple, being a sacred place, he does.
For; if we would know our Maker’s grace, and attain to the sight of Him, we must avoid the crowd of evil thoughts and affections, convey ourselves out of the con
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