John 5:19-29

The words before us were spoken by Jesus to “them” — Jews who sought to kill Jesus because He had broken the sabbath and said that He worked on the sabbath as “My Father worketh” (v. 17). These Jews thought to live by the law of Moses and sought to impose the righteousness of the law upon others. They viewed Jesus as a blasphemer worthy of death by stoning. They saw themselves as…