Verse 18

For this reason the Jewish leaders were trying even harder to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.

Referenced Verses

  • John 10:33 : 33 The Jewish leaders replied,“We are not going to stone you for a good deed but for blasphemy, because you, a man, are claiming to be God.”
  • John 8:58 : 58 Jesus said to them,“I tell you the solemn truth, before Abraham came into existence, I am!”
  • John 10:30 : 30 The Father and I are one.”
  • John 5:23 : 23 so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
  • John 19:7 : 7 The Jewish leaders replied,“We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, because he claimed to be the Son of God!”
  • Phil 2:6 : 6 who though he existed in the form of God did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped,
  • Rev 22:1 : 1 Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life– water as clear as crystal– pouring out from the throne of God and of the Lamb,
  • John 5:16 : 16 Responding to Jewish Leaders Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him.
  • John 7:1 : 1 The Feast of Shelters After this Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He stayed out of Judea because the Jewish leaders wanted to kill him.
  • Zech 13:7 : 7 “Awake, sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is my associate,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. Strike the shepherd that the flock may be scattered; I will turn my hand against the insignificant ones.
  • John 7:19 : 19 Hasn’t Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill me?”
  • John 7:22-23 : 22 However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision(not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child on the Sabbath. 23 But if a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?
  • John 8:54 : 54 Jesus replied,“If I glorify myself, my glory is worthless. The one who glorifies me is my Father, about whom you people say,‘He is our God.’
  • John 14:23 : 23 Jesus replied,“If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him.
  • Rev 22:3 : 3 And there will no longer be any curse, and the throne of God and the Lamb will be in the city. His servants will worship him,
  • Rev 21:22-23 : 22 Now I saw no temple in the city, because the Lord God– the All-Powerful– and the Lamb are its temple. 23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God lights it up, and its lamp is the Lamb.
  • John 14:9 : 9 Jesus replied,“Have I been with you for so long, and you have not known me, Philip? The person who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say,‘Show us the Father’?
  • Matt 12:5 : 5 Or have you not read in the law that the priests in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are not guilty?