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Joh 5:18. Διὰ τοῦτο) on account of this, on account of which they ought to have been satisfied. They turn His very defence into a ground for greater accusation.-μᾶλλον, the more) There is a gradation: lately they were persecuting Him; now further they seek to kill Him.-ἔλυε, He was breaking) by act, Joh 5:8, “Take up thy bed;” and by word, Joh 5:17, “My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.”-ἴδιον· ἴσον, His own: equal) His own Father’s own Son: Rom 8:32, “He that spared not His own Son.” The Only-begotten alone can say, My Father: of the Only-begotten alone the Father saith, My Son. Not only has Jesus most frequently repeated the names of Father and Son, but even has mentioned the intimate equality and unity of the Father and Himself: and I [work]: Joh 5:17, We are in unity, etc.; ch. Joh 10:30; Joh 10:38, “I and My Father are one;-the Father is in Me, and I in Him.” All these declarations conjointly the Jews assailed.-ἔλεγε, was saying) In reality Jesus did say that which the Jews were now supposing He said;[105] but that they, sad to say, esteemed as blasphemy.
[105] As for instance two men, of whom the one is father of the other, are of an equal nature: so that One, whose own Father peculiarly the supreme GOD is, and who is own Son peculiarly of the supreme GOD, is equal to GOD.-V. g.