38th Post Jesus" Relationship with His Father "- John 5: 19 - 23

John 5: 19 - 23, were said before the passages discussed in posts 36 and 37. This passage comes after Jesus has healed a paralytic man at the pool of Bethesda by the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem, on the Sabbath. The Jews were outraged by the fact that Jesus healed this man on the Sabbath. This is toward the beginning of Jesus' ministry and the two previous posts were toward the end of Jesus' ministry. The people are plotting to kill Jesus at this time, and are asking by whose authority do you do these things? Jesus tells the people that the Son can do nothing on His own, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner. For the Father loves the Son and shows Him (Jesus) all the things that He Himself (Father) does; and He (Father) will show Him (Jesus) greater works than these, that you may marvel. For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom He will. For the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son, that all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father (God) who sent Him (Jesus). Jesus is again here, telling the people that everything He does and says, comes from the Father (God). Then He adds judgment to the list. The Old Testament is clear that God the Father is the one Who will judge. Now Jesus says here that God the Father has passed that right onto Jesus. This is new, this goes completely against what the Jews taught in their Temple and in the Synagogues of Israel. YHWH, were the consonances only used in the spelling of their word for God. YHWH means YAHWEH He creates. YHWH seems to be singular in form so they thought of God in the singular here. This is one of the problems the Jews had in accepting Jesus as Son of God. The people of Nazareth thought they knew Jesus' parents, but they really knew only half of the union, Mary. Joseph was not the father of Jesus, he was Jesus step-father, earthly father. God was Jesus Father as Jesus has been stating.