005:016 and on this account the Jews began to persecute Jesus-- because He did these things on the Sabbath. 005:017 His reply to their accusation was, "My Father works unceasingly, and so do I." 005:018 On this account then the Jews were all the more eager to put Him to death--because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also spoke of God as being in a special sense His Father, thus putting Himself on a level with God. 005:019 "In most solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that the Son can do nothing of Himself--He can only do what He sees the Father doing; for whatever He does, that the Son does in like manner. 005:020 For the Father loves the Son and reveals to Him all that He Himself is doing. And greater deeds than these will He reveal to Him, in order that you may wonder. 005:021 For just as the Father awakens the dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to whom He wills. 005:022 The Father indeed does not judge any one, but He has entrusted all judgement to the Son, 005:023 that all may honour the Son even as they honour the Father. The man who withholds honour from the Son withholds honour from the Father who sent Him. 005:024 "In most solemn truth I tell you that he who listens to my teaching and believes Him who sent me, has the Life of the Ages, and does not come under judgement, but has passed over out of death into Life. 005:025 "In most solemn truth I tell you that a time is coming-- nay, has already come--when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear it will live. 005:026 For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He has also given to the Son to have life in Himself. 005:027 And He has conferred on Him authority to act as Judge, because He is the Son of Man. 005:028 Wonder not at this. For a time is coming when all who are in the graves will hear His voice and will come forth-- 005:029 they who have done what is right to the resurrection of Life, and they whose actions have been evil to the resurrection of judgement. 005:030 "I can of my own self do nothing. As I am bidden, so I judge; and mine is a just judgement, because it is not my own will that guides me, but the will of Him who sent me. 005:031 "If I give testimony concerning myself, my testimony cannot be accepted. 005:032 There is Another who gives testimony concerning me, and I know that the testimony is true which He offers concerning me. 005:033 "You sent to John, and he both was and still is a witness to the truth. 005:034 But the testimony on my behalf which I accept is not from man; though I say all this in order that you may be saved. 005:035 He was the lamp that burned and shone, and for a time you were willing to be gladdened by his light.