John 5:17

But Jesus answered them, My Father works until now and I work.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.

In Context

16And because of this the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on a Sabbath.

18Because of this therefore the Jews sought even more to kill him, because not only did he relax the Sabbath, but also he called God his own Father, making himself equal to God.

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Cross References

Psalms 65:6who by his strength sets firm the mountains, being girded about with might,

Matthew 10:29Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall on the ground independent of your Father.

John 14:10Do thou not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The sayings that I speak to you I speak not from myself, but the Father who dwells in me, he does the works.

Acts 17:28For in him we live, and move, and exist, as also some of the performers from you have said, For of him we are also offspring.

Colossians 1:16Because in him all things were created, things in the heavens and things upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or lordships or principal offices or positions of authority, all things have been created

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 →

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