“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.
Church Fathers on John 5:17
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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