22 Go on your way and sin no more, or something worse may fall on you. 23 And now the man knew who it was who made him whole. 24 He told the story to the priests and they were much enraged; they said, The law forbids a man to heal upon the Sabbath day. 25 But Jesus said, My Father works on Sabbath days and may not I? 26 He sends his rain, his sunshine and his dew; he makes his grass to grow, his flowers to bloom; he speeds the harvests just the same on Sabbath days as on the other days. 27 If it is lawful for the grass to grow and flowers to bloom on Sabbath days it surely is not wrong to succor stricken men. 28 And then the priests were angered more and more because he claimed to be a son of God. 29 A leading priest, Abihu, said, This fellow is a menace to our nation and our laws; he makes himself to be a son of God; it is not meet that he should live. 30 But Jesus said, Abihu, Sir, you are a learned man; you surely know the law of life. Pray tell who were the sons of God we read about in Genesis, who took to wife the daughters of the sons of men? 31 Our father Adam; who was he? From whence came he? Had he a father? or did he fall from heaven as a star? 32 We read that Moses said, He came from God. If Adam came from God, pray, was he offspring, was he son? 33 We are the children of this son of God; then tell me, learned priest, Who are we if not sons of God? 34 The priest had urgent business and he went his away. 35 And Jesus said, All men are sons of God and if they live a holy life they always are at home with God. 36 They see and understand the works of God, and in his sacred name they can perform these works. 37 The lightnings and the storms are messengers of God as well as are the sunshine, rain and dew. 38 The virtues of the heavens are in God’s hands, and every loyal son may use these virtues and these powers. 39 Man is the delegate of God to do his will on earth, and man can heal the sick, control the spirits of the air, and raise the dead. 40 Because I have the power to do these things is nothing strange. All men may gain the power to do these things; but they must conquer all the passions of the lower self; and they can conquer if they will. 41 So man is God on earth, and he who honors God must honor man; for God and man are one, as father and the child are one. 42 Behold, I say, The hour has come; the dead will hear the voice of man, and live, because the son of man is son of God. 43 You men of Israel, hear! you live in death; you are locked up within the tomb. 44 (There is no deeper death than ignorance and unbelief.) 45 But all will some day hear the voice of God, made plain by voice of man, and live. You all will know that you are sons of God, and by the sacred Word, may do the works of God. 46 When you have come to life, that is, have come to realize that you are sons of God, you who have lived the life of right, will open up your eyes on fields of life.