But He answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I Myself am working.” For this reason therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God. Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless [it is] something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner. For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself is doing; and [the Father] will how Him greater works than these, so that you will marvel.”
Quoting from Leon Morris on the above:
“He [Jesus] begins with a very strong affirmation of community of action with the Father, It is not simply that he does not act in independence of the Father; he cannot act in independence of the Father…There is a continual contemplation of the Father by the Son, an uninterrupted communion. The result of this is that it is the things the Father does that the Son does too, ‘not in imitation, but in sameness of nature’ (Westcott).”
As Jesus teaches in John Chapters 13 – 17, all who believe in Him partake of His relationship with the Father; we are bid to partake of the koinonia of the Trinity. Just as the works of Jesus flowed from relationship with the Father, so our works in Christ flow from our relationship in the Holy Trinity. The Father loves us as He loves Jesus (John 17) and the unity we are called to is the unity of the Trinity (John 17).
Our days and our nights, our words and our deeds, our thoughts and our hearts…no longer have their roots in the dust but rather in Those Three who have come to live within us, John 14:23; Ephesians 2:19 – 22.
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