<p>5:17- see on 2 Cor. 4:6.</p><p><i>But Jesus answered them: My Father works even until now and therefore I also work</i>- The cosmos hasn't been created, wound up by God as it were on clockwork, and left ticking by an absent creator. There are many Bible verses which teach that God is actively, consciously outgiving of His Spirit in the myriad things going on in the natural creation, every nanosecond He is sensitive to the needed input from Him- and He gives it. Therefore we are never far from Him. The Lord Jesus defended working for His Father on the Sabbath because God was also at work on the Sabbath.</p><p>That God's Son could be a normal working class person actually says a lot about the humility of God Himself. Jn. 5:17 has been translated: &quot;My Father is a working man to this day, and I am a working man myself&quot;. No less an authority than C.H. Dodd commented: &quot;That the Greek words could bear that meaning is undeniable&quot;. I find especially awesome the way Mary mistakes the risen Lord for a lowly gardener- He evidently dressed Himself in the clothes of a working man straight after His resurrection, a far cry from the haloed Christ of high church art.</p>