John 5:16
And because of this the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on a Sabbath.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
15The man departed and reported to the Jews that Jesus is the man who made him well.
17But Jesus answered them, My Father works until now and I work.
Cross References
Matthew 12:13Then he says to the man, Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched it forth, and it was restored whole, as the other.
Luke 6:11But they were filled with fury, and deliberated with each other what they might do to Jesus.
John 7:19Did not Moses give you the law, and none of you does the law? Why do ye seek to kill me?
John 10:39Therefore they sought again to take him, and he went forth out of their hand.
Acts 9:4And after falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why do thou persecute me?
Matthew Henry on John 5:2-17
The Cure at the Pool of Bethesda. 1 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. 3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. 4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of… Read the whole commentary →