John 5:18

18 This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

John tells us that the reason the Jewish authorities wanted to kill Jesus is because they believed He was blaspheming by equating himself with God. But what we the readers have known since the first verse of John’s Gospel is that Jesus actually was God.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. [John 1:1]

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
The dividing line between Christianity and all other religions is the identity of Jesus—other religions may say Jesus was a prophet or a spiritual being or a good teacher, but only the Christian faith says that Jesus is God.