MARY, OUR MOTHER

SCRIPTURE COMMENTARY #227

But Jesus answered them: "My Father worketh until now; and I work." Hereupon therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he did not only break the sabbath but also said God was his Father, making himself equal to God. Then Jesus answered and said to them: "Amen, amen, I say unto you, the Son cannot do any thing of himself, but what he seeth the Father doing: for what things soever he doth, these the Son also doth in like manner." (John 5:17-19)

OUR LORD'S OWN TESTIMONY TO HIS DIVINITY: In this chapter our Lord openly and clearly asserts and proves His equality with the Father. He is one with Him in nature, in power, and action. "My Father worketh until now, and I work." He too, like the Father, is Lord of the Sabbath. He, like the Father, has life in Himself and can raise the dead to life. The Jews perfectly understood that He made Himself equal to the Father, and our Lord, far from correcting their interpretation, rather confirmed it in the most solemn manner by an appeal to His works: "Amen, amen, I say unto you, etc," and finally claimed the same honor and worship as the Father.

[From 'A Practical Commentary on Holy Scripture' by Bishop Knecht, D.D.]
(1899 Douay-Rheims Bible)