With or Without Me

Then Jesus replied,  “I assure you: The Son is not able to do anything on His own, but only what He sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does these things in the same way. For the Father loves the Son and shows Him everything He is doing, and He will show Him greater works than these so that you will be amazed. And just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to anyone He wants to. The Father, in fact, judges no one but has given all judgment to the Son, so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

(John 5:19-23 Holman Christian Standard Bible ©®)

“I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in Me and I in him produces much fruit, because you can do nothing without Me.

(John 15:5 Holman Christian Standard Bible ©®)

Jesus is not really declaring any inabilities on his part by saying that He can’t do anything without the Father. He is neither declaring any inabilities in us by saying that we can’t do anything without Him. That is because we are not without Him.