Jesus responded to them,
"My Father is still working,
and I am working also." This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill him:
Not only was he breaking the Sabbath,
but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal to God.
John 5:17-18 CSB
I'm not sure if having people killed was their normal practice but Jesus actions, and now his claims were unmistakable.
He gives us no wriggle room - Jesus is either delusional, a liar, or he is who he says he is.
The Jews were so annoyed that he helped someone when he should've been having a lie down or something that they weren't prepared to find out.
They just wanted Jesus gone.
Sometimes I get annoyed at Jesus too. Why doesn't he work to my agenda?
Get the things done I want done?
Follow my rules?
But he doesn't,
and he won't,
and again he quietly asks, do you believe that I am who I say I am?
#gospelofjohn
#trust
#trust
#trust
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