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Would you turn with me into the gospel of John the fifth chapter, please?

John, chapter 5.

You and I are continuing what may be a brief series I do not know how long yet we're just going to see as the Spirit of God leads us

a series into the distinctiveness and some of the distinctive features of the gospel of John

and there are a number of them

There is one that is tucked right here in the middle of the gospel of John, and there are a number of them. There is one that is tucked right here in the middle of the chapter.

You see it throughout the course of the gospel, but here in this place, we see it highlighted

in such a way that it brings the launching for everything that will come after as he proclaims this concept over and over.

John chapter 5, I want to begin reading at verse 16, just through verse 20.

It says this, so, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews persecuted him.

Jesus said to them, my father is always at his work to this

very day, and I too am working. For this reason the Jews tried all the harder to kill him, not only was he

breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own father, making himself equal with God.

Verse 19, Jesus gave them this answer.

I tell you the truth.

It would be in Hebrew, amen and amen.

It is that double affirmative.

I tell you the truth, verily, verily.

I tell you truth, truth. The son can do nothing by himself. He can only do what he sees his father doing because whatever the father does, the son also does. For the father loves the son and shows him all he does. Yes, to your amazement, he will show him even greater things than

these. As we're looking into the distinctive features of the Gospel of John, we're learning that

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