This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.”
I and the Father are one.”
The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has made himself the Son of God.”
Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”
that all may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,
Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb
Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’
Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?”
After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.
And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.
“Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, against the man who stands next to me,” declares the Lord of hosts. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; I will turn my hand against the little ones.
No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him.
Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath. If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man's whole body well?
Or have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless?
And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb.
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