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the two life givers

And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. (John’s first century eyewitness biography of Jesus Chapter 5: 16-29)
 
What things was he doing on the Sabbath? He healed a strengthless and friendless 38-years-a-paralytic, enabled him to lift up his bed and to walk around. Should those things be done on the Sabbath? 

But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.” 

Jesus’ explanation was that he was indeed working on the Sabbath – like his Father. The God of the Bible was acknowledged by the Jews as being the only one who did actually work on the Sabbath. On the Sabbath, the Almighty sustains the universe (which is both expanding and accelerating daily in its expansion rate). He also enables dead Jersey royals to multiply, and new-born calves to take their first breaths – on the Sabbath.

But what works had Jesus, the only Son of the Father just done on the Sabbath? Is this a case of “Like Father; like son”?

This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God. 

It seems that the Jews did understand what Jesus was saying. Did they think, “This can’t be true”? But the 38-years-a-paralytic was walking.
 
So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise. For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. And greater works than these will he show him, so that you may marvel.”
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It seems that Father and Son are one in what they do on Sabbaths as well as on other days. Are these things (which they do) any good at all?

“For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will. For the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son, that all may honour the Son, just as they honour the Father. Whoever does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent him.” 

Is this right? Is it correct that the Father “raises the dead and gives them life” (like the dead Jersey Royal and the fertile Jersey cow)? Is it correct that the Son does the same, “gives life to whom he will” (like the 38-years-a-paralytic sought by Jesus at the pool of the strengthless)? 

But there’s more. Many of us human beings think of Almighty God as the one who “judges”. Not so. “All judgment has been given to the Son”. So the one whom we must honour is, in fact, the one who saved the strengthless paralytic and enabled him to carry his bed and walk.

“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.”

What’s this? It’s a message to “whoever”. And it’s about “life” and about not coming “into judgment". And this “life” is “eternal life”.

“Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself.” 
 
Back then, around AD 30, there was an opportunity for “the dead” to “hear the voice of the Son of God” and to live – through listening to it.
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"And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man. Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.” 

Forward then, we know not when, “judgment” will be executed and it will be executed by this “Son of Man” and will involve all who have been alive.
 
Sinner Syvret
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