“But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.”
For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; for not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God. — the authorities rightly perceive Jesus' claim: by working on the Sabbath in imitation of the Father and by calling God his own Father (idiotes: possessive intimacy), Jesus asserts equality with God. This is the central charge that drives the narrative toward crucifixion.
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