NOTES for Joh 5:1-24
Gradually the Lord begins to reveal to the disciples, and not only to them, the mystery of His ministry. He came to earth to "do" what His Father "does." As the Father gives life to people on the Sabbath, so Jesus gives life to people with the life of the Father. He has the right to do this because He Himself is the presence of the Father, the executor of His work: to judge and to give life.
And the evangelist calls us to that breakthrough which he calls faith: to see the unobvious, to see behind what is happening in our life, whether healing or the sense of divine peace in the heart, the face of Jesus, who carries out the Father's will and leads us to the knowledge of the One whom we cannot see by ourselves, but whom we await and honor. And whoever honors the Father must treat the One whom He sent with equal reverence and love.