Equality with the Father

In the following verses, Jesus claims equality with God, the Father.

Reference	Verse	Comment
John 10.33	"I and the Father are one." Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus said to them, "I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?" "We are not stoning you for any good work," they replied, "but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God."	1"I and the Father are one", in the original Greek, means "one in essence". 2 In the historical context, the Jews knew that Jesus was claiming to be Deity and for that, they must stone Him (for blasphemy).
John 5.17,18	So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him. In his defense Jesus said to them, "My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working." For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.	Calls God His Father First, Jesus calls God, "My Father." The Jews would sometimes speak of "our Father," or if they used "my Father," they would add, "in heaven," or some other expression to remove any suggestion of familiarity. But Jesus speaks of God as His Father in the most intimate of terms. Working In this verse, by saying: "My Father is working until now, and I Myself am working," Jesus outrageously links His own activity directly with God’s activity. This statement implies that He is working alongside the Father AND that He has always been working alongside the Father! This is another claim to Deity. The Jews got it. They wanted all the more to kill Him because He was making Himself equal to God.

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John 10.33

"I and the Father are one."
Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him,
but Jesus said to them, "I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?"
"We are not stoning you for any good work," they replied, "but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God."

1"I and the Father are one", in the original Greek, means "one in essence".
2 In the historical context, the Jews knew that Jesus was claiming to be Deity and for that, they must stone Him (for blasphemy).

John 5.17,18

So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him.
In his defense Jesus said to them, "My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working."
For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

Calls God His Father

First, Jesus calls God, "My Father." The Jews would sometimes speak of "our Father," or if they used "my Father," they would add, "in heaven," or some other expression to remove any suggestion of familiarity. But Jesus speaks of God as His Father in the most intimate of terms.

Working

In this verse, by saying: "My Father is working until now, and I Myself am working," Jesus outrageously links His own activity directly with God’s activity.

This statement implies that He is working alongside the Father AND that He has always been working alongside the Father! This is another claim to Deity.

The Jews got it. They wanted all the more to kill Him because He was making Himself equal to God.