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Joh 5:17. Ὁ Πατήρ μου, My Father) In what sense Jesus said, My Father, even the Jews themselves understood better than the Photinians: Joh 5:18, “The Jews sought to kill Him, because-He said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God.” Here is set down the main point of the discourses of Jesus, which John subsequently records: and especially those statements are to be observed, which Jesus sometimes of His own accord has put forth as a kind of text to the fuller discourses which follow; for instance, ch. Joh 6:27, “Labour-for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you;” Joh 7:37, “If any man thirst, let him come unto Me and drink;” Joh 8:12, “I am the light of the world.”-ἕως ἄρτι, hitherto) all along from creation, without any Sabbath intermission. For He is not bound by the Sabbath: He lacks not perpetual rest. If He were not to work, where would be the Sabbath itself?-ἐργάζεται, worketh) An excellent speech as to the Divine works.-κἀλώ, and I) The Father works not without the Son: the Son not without the Father: Joh 5:19, “The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He seeth the Father do.” It is this proposition that is explained from Joh 5:19-30 (whence Joh 5:19 is repeated at Joh 5:30, “I can of mine own self do nothing”), and is confirmed and vindicated, Joh 5:31, etc.