“Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.”
Jesus gave them this answer: 'Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. — Jesus' response paradoxically asserts both dependence and equality. The Son can do nothing by himself (ouk dunatai ho huios), yet what he does the Father also does. This dialectic of subordination and equality defines Johannine Christology.
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