John 10:30~33 I and the Father are one. The Jews again took up stones that they might stone Him. Jesus answered them, I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of these works are you stoning Me? The Jews answered Him, We are not stoning You for a good work, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a man, are making Yourself God.
[The Jews in this chapter were the religious Jews representing religion] By reading this book carefully, you will even see how the sound and genuine religion opposes Christ as life. Within the first ten chapters of this gospel, the only opposition our Lord met came from the Jewish religion. Religion opposed Him, rejected Him, repudiated Him and persecuted Him...
In chapter five we see religion's opposition to life fully aroused. This was due to the fact that the Lord Jesus enlivened the impotent man on the Sabbath day. To the Jews, it seemed that He broke their regulations about the Sabbath.
Consequently, they began to oppose Him. In fact, they began to be very much against the Lord. By this case we can see how the rules and regulations of religion are in opposition to the Lord as life to the needy.
The Lord who is our life is one thing, but religion with all of its rules and regulations is another. In chapter nine, He gave sight to a blind man. He purposely did this on the Sabbath day.
Why did not the Lord Jesus go to the blind man before or after the Sabbath day? He did it purposely to break the dead rituals of dead religion. That stirred religion's opposition against life.
The Lord purposely broke the Sabbath regulation before the eyes of the religious Jews. The eyes of the blind man received sight, but the eyes of the Pharisees received blindness due to their opposition. In the first ten chapters of this gospel we see the fighting, the struggle, between religion and life.
Eventually, the Lord deserted that religion and went outside of it. Where is He now? He is outside of religion.
He has nothing to do with it. Now, in His new standing, there is no religious element. All the elements of religion have been excluded.