Gospel According to John 5;16-18. Therefore the Jews started persecuting Jesus,because he was doing such things on the day of Sabbath.But Jesus answered them "My Father is still working and I also am working. "For this reason the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because he was not only breaking the sabbath, but was also calling God his own Father,thereby making himself equal to God. Persecution of God may appear to be an irony because God Incarnate is subjected to terror by frail human beings.This the utmost folly that we can do here on earth.Of course it was the total blindness and the sinful nature of man that results in persecuting and rejecting God.In our egoistic belief and behavior, man tends to crucify God. How shameful and heinous it is.How can we get out of this sin.Getting out of this sin means giving up Satan.when we behave in accordance with Satan, we are in the trap created by him. Worshiping and accepting God is a difficult process as it involves sel...