⁵⁷ Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command, that if anyone knew where He was, he should report it, that they might ^(A)seize Him.

^39 (A)Therefore they sought again to seize Him, but He escaped out of their hand.

²² His parents said these things because ^(A)they feared the Jews, for the Jews had agreed already that if anyone confessed that He was Christ, he ^(B)would be put out of the synagogue.

⁵⁹ Then ^(A)they took up stones to throw at Him; but Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple, ^(B)going^[a] through the midst of them, and so passed by.

Honor the Father and the Son

¹⁶ For this reason the Jews ^(A)persecuted Jesus, ^[a]and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath. ¹⁷ But Jesus answered them, ^(B)“My Father has been working until now, and I have been working.”

¹⁸ Therefore the Jews ^(C)sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, ^(D)making Himself equal with God.