Quote of the Day

[Referring to John 5:17] “Sonship” is very often a functional category in the Bible. Because the overwhelming majority of sons ended up vocationally doing what their fathers did, “like father, like son” was the cultural assumption. Jesus assumes as much in the Beatitudes: “Blessed are th peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God” (Matt. 5:9). The idea is that God is the supreme Peacemaker, and so every peacemaker is in that respect like God, and to that extent God’s “son.” …So when Jesus claims that his “father” is “always at his work to this very day,” he is implicitly claiming to be God’s Son, with the right to follow the pattern of work that God himself sets in this regard.

[Carson, D. A., The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God (Crossway Books, 2000), pg. 31, 32]