John 5:17
Douay-Rheims
But Jesus answered them: My Father worketh until now; and I work.
John Chrysostom
(Hom. xxxviii. s. 3) Were He not the Son by nature, and of the same substance, this defence would be worse than the former accusation made. For no prefect could clear Himself from a transgression of the king’s law, by urging that the king broke it also. But, on the supposition of the Son’s equality to the Father, the defence is valid. It then follows, that as the Father worked on the Sabbath without doing wrong: the Son could do so likewise.
Source details
A.D. 407 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 5:14-18
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.