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Gospel Reading - The Authority of the Son

¹⁷But Jesus replied, “My Father constantly does good, and I’m following his example.”^a

¹⁸Then the Jewish leaders were all the more eager to kill him because in addition to disobeying their Sabbath laws, he had spoken of God as his Father, thereby making himself equal with God.

¹⁹Jesus replied, “The Son can do nothing by himself. He does only what he sees the Father doing, and in the same way. ²⁰For the Father loves the Son, and tells him everything he is doing; and the Son will do far more awesome miracles than this man’s healing. ²¹He will even raise from the dead anyone he wants to, just as the Father does. ²²And the Father leaves all judgment of sin to his Son, ²³so that everyone will honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. But if you refuse to honor God’s Son, whom he sent to you, then you are certainly not honoring the Father.

²⁴“I say emphatically that anyone who listens to my message and believes in God who sent me has eternal life, and will never be damned for his sins, but has already passed out of death into life.

²⁵“And I solemnly declare that the time is coming, in fact, it is here, when the dead shall hear my voice — the voice of the Son of God — and those who listen shall live. ²⁶The Father has life in himself, and has granted his Son to have life in himself, ²⁷and to judge the sins of all mankind because he is the Son of Man. ²⁸Don’t be so surprised! Indeed the time is coming when all the dead in their graves shall hear the voice of God’s Son, ²⁹and shall rise again — those who have done good, to eternal life; and those who have continued in evil, to judgment.

1. Literally, “My Father works even until now, and I work.”