<p>5:19 <i>Jesus therefore answered and said to them: Truly, truly, I say to you: The Son can do nothing of himself but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever works He does, these the Son does in like manner</i>- The statement that He can do nothing of Himself is an answer to their mistaken idea that He was making Himself in some way equal to God (:18). &ldquo;The works&hellip; The Son can do nothing <i>of himself</i>&rdquo; recalls Moses' words: &ldquo;All these works&hellip; I have not done them of my own mind&rdquo; (Num. 16:28). The Lord was claiming to be as Moses, and a prophet greater than Moses; but not God.</p><p>This passage gives a window into the Lord's self-perception here. He says that whatever He sees the Father / abba / daddy do, He does &quot;in like manner&quot;. It is the language of a young child mimicking their father. And He speaks of Himself as an adult behaving just like this. There was a child-likeness about Him in this sense. And the disciples seem to have noticed this- for no less than four times in Acts (Acts 3:13,26; 4:27,30) they refer to Jesus as the &quot;holy child&quot; of God. Their image of Jesus had something in it which reflected that child-likeness about Him which still stuck in their memories. And may we too &quot;ceaseless... Abba, father, cry&quot;. The haunting melody of that hymn well expresses the utter wonder of it all, as we too struggle to find our true Father. The spirit / attitude of the Son of God should be ours, in that we like Him cry &quot;Abba, father&quot; (Gal. 4:6; Rom. 8:15). His spirit / attitude to the Father should be ours; He stressed that His Father is our Father (Jn. 20:17). Jesus acted and 'was' for all the world as if He had had His natural Father with Him from the start of His life. This was how close the Father became to Jesus; the extent to which He successfully 'found' Him; to the point that the 'mere' invisibility of that Father was not a major issue or barrier in their relationship. And so it should be for us, in the life of believing in that which is unseen, and in them who are invisible to us.&nbsp;</p>