22 Go on your way and sin no more, or something worse may fall on you.
23 And now the man knew who it was who made him whole.
24 He told the story to the priests and they were much enraged; they said, The law forbids a man to heal upon the Sabbath day.
25 But Jesus said, My Father works on Sabbath days and may not I?
26 He sends his rain, his sunshine and his dew; he makes his grass to grow, his flowers to bloom; he speeds the harvests just the same on Sabbath days as on the other days.
27 If it is lawful for the grass to grow and flowers to bloom on Sabbath days it surely is not wrong to succor stricken men.
28 And then the priests were angered more and more because he claimed to be a son of God.
29 A leading priest, Abihu, said, This fellow is a menace to our nation and our laws; he makes himself to be a son of God; it is not meet that he should live.
30 But Jesus said, Abihu, Sir, you are a learned man; you surely know the law of life. Pray tell who were the sons of God we read about in Genesis, who took to wife the daughters of the sons of men?
31 Our father Adam; who was he? From whence came he? Had he a father? or did he fall from heaven as a star?