John 5:16-18

New Century Version

¹⁶ Because Jesus was doing this on the Sabbath day, some evil people began to persecute him. ¹⁷ But Jesus said to them, “My Father never stops working, and so I keep working, too.”

¹⁸ This made them try still harder to kill him. They said, “First Jesus was breaking the law about the Sabbath day. Now he says that God is his own Father, making himself equal with God!”