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18 Therefore, for this reason the Jews were seeking more to kill Him: because He was not only breaking[a] the Sabbath, but He was also calling God His own Father, making Himself equal[b] to God!

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Footnotes

  1. John 5:18 That is, annulling the authority of the Sabbath over how people should live.
  2. John 5:18 If God is His own Father, then Jesus has the same nature and essence as God, as do all fathers and sons, and thus is Himself God. Jesus was killed for claiming this, 19:7.

18 For this reason they tried all the more to kill him;(A) not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.(B)

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18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

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Jesus Is Equal with God

18 This was why the Jews (A)were seeking all the more to kill him, (B)because not only was he (C)breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God (D)his own Father, (E)making himself equal with God.

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