14Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.”
15The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.
The Authority of the Son16So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him. 17In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.”