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jerrab » 06 Mar 2026, 1:29 pm » wrote: ↑

06 Mar 2026, 1:29 pm

john 5
14 Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.” 15 The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.The Authority of the Son16 So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him. 17 In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.

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God never rests/// a big contradictIon to the old testament

“But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work” (verse 17). It was an overwhelming answer.

They knew nothing of fellowship with the Father. He (Jesus), not they, could call God “My Father,” and loved to say that He “worketh hitherto.” For the Father could not rest in sin, He would not rest in misery. It is not yet God judging. Therefore was He working as Father, and until now, though only now declaring Himself Father in and by the Son. Even before this, however, He had not left Himself without witness in Jerusalem itself, as the crowd of expectant sick round the pool of Bethesda attested. But this was only partial and transient. The Son was here to make Him fully known, and known as One who could not keep His Sabbath yet, whatever the Jews ignorant of Him might wish to say or do. “My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.” Jesus, the Son, had fellowship, unbroken and perfect, with His Father.

Yet the words were still more offensive than the work they had just seen; and the way in which Jesus had openly caused it to be done and seen clashed with all their prejudices and stirred the depths of their unbelief. For in so speaking His personal glory could not but shine forth.

Both the Father and the Son were working, not resting.

https://bibletruthpublishers.com/john-5 ... y/la161798

it has absolutely nothing to do in contradiction with the OT…