“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.”
John 5:18 KJV
This infuriated them and made them all the more eager to devise a plan to kill Him. For not only did He break their Sabbath rules, but He also called God “My Father,” which made Him equal to God. Jesus did not break the Sabbath, He “loosed” it from the bondage of tradition and man-made rules. Jesus’s critics clearly understood that He was claiming God as His Father in a unique way. At Jesus’s baptism, the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon Him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, “Thou art My beloved Son; in Thee I am well pleased.” It was no doubt unique that Jesus is the Son of God the Father, equal to Him. We worship God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. Three Persons and One God. Amen!
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