16 And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done those things on the sabbath day.
17 But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
18 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 lumself equal with God.
19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing of him- self, but what he seeth the Father do : for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son hkewise.
20 For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth : and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.
21 For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth/Aem; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judg- ment unto the Son :
23 That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
These verses begin one of the most deep and solemn pas- gages in the four Gospels. They show us the Lord Jesus asserting His own Divine nature, His unity with God the Father, and the high dignity of His office. Nowhere does pur Lord dwell so fully on these subjects as in the chapter before us. And nowhere, we must confess, do we find out 60 thoroughly the weakness of man's understanding ! There is much, we must all feel, that is far beyond our compre- hension in our Lord's account of Himself. Such knowledge, in short, is too wonderful for us. *' It is high : we cannot attain unto it." (Psalm cxxxix. 6,) How often men say that they want clear explanations of sueh doctrines as the