“My Father is always doing his work. He is working right up to this very day. I am working too.” For this reason the Jews tried even harder to kill him. Jesus was not only breaking the Sabbath. He was even calling God his own Father. He was making himself equal with God. Jesus answered, “What I’m about to tell you is true. The Son can do nothing by himself. He can do only what he sees his Father doing. What the Father does, the Son also does. This is because the Father loves the Son. He shows him everything he does. Yes, you will be amazed! The Father will show him even greater things than these. “The Father raises the dead and gives them life. In the same way, the Son gives life to anyone he wants to. … “I do not accept praise from people. But I know you. I know that you do not have love for God in your hearts. I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me. But if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him. “You accept praise from one another. But you make no effort to receive the praise that comes from the only God. So how can you believe? “Do not think I will bring charges against you in front of the Father. Moses is the one who does that. And he is the one you build your hopes on. … “God’s work is to believe in the One he has sent.” So they asked him, “What miraculous sign will you give us? What will you do so we can see it and believe you? Long ago our people ate the manna in the desert. It is written in Scripture, ‘The Lord gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” (Exodus 16:4; Nehemiah 9:15; Psalm 78:24,25) Jesus said to them, “What I’m about to tell you is true. It is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven. It is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. The bread of God is the One who comes down from heaven. He gives life to the world.” “Sir,” they said, “give us this bread from now on.” Then Jesus said, “I am the bread of life. No one who comes to me will ever go hungry. And no one who believes in me will ever be thirsty.
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