e as this man did, though perhaps
our activities are often more hurtful than his absolute inactivity, and
under an appearance of prosperity the heart may have been torn with
remorse as painful as his. Yet let no man think that he knows the worst
that sin can do. After the longest experience we may sink deeper still,
and indeed must do so unless we listen to Christ's voice saying,
"Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon
thee."

FOOTNOTES:

[14] Verse 4 is omitted by recent editors on the authority of the best
ancient MSS.

XIII.

_JESUS LIFE-GIVER AND JUDGE._

"The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus which had
made him whole. And for this cause did the Jews persecute Jesus,
because He did these things on the sabbath. But Jesus answered them,
My Father worketh even until now, and I work. For this cause
therefore the Jews sought the more to kill Him, because He not only
brake the sabbath, but also called God His own Father, making
Himself equal with God. Jesus therefore answered and said unto them,
Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of Himself,
but what He seeth the Father doing: for what things soever He doeth,
these the Son also doeth in like manner. For the Father loveth the
Son, and sheweth Him all things that Himself doeth: and greater
works than these will He shew Him, that ye may marvel. For as the
Father raiseth the dead and quickeneth them, even so the Son also
quickeneth whom He will. For neither doth the Father judge any man,
but He hath given all judgement unto the Son; that all may honour
the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the
Son honoureth not the Father which sent Him. Verily, verily, I say
unto you, He that heareth My word, and believeth Him that sent Me,
hath eternal life, and cometh not into judgement, but hath passed
out of death into life. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour
cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of
God; and they that hear shall live. For as the Father hath life in
Himself, even so gave He to the Son also to have life in Himself:
and He gave Him authority to execute judgement, because He is the
Son of man. Marvel not at this: for the hour cometh, in which all
that are in the tombs shall hear His voice, and shall come forth;
they that have