John 5:16

And for this reason did the Jews persecute Jesus, and seek to kill him, because he had done these things on the sabbath.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.

In Context

15The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus that had restored him to health.

17But Jesus answered them: My Father works till now, and I also work.

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Cross References

Matthew 12:13Then he said to the man: Stretch forth your hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored to soundness, like the other.

Luke 6:11But they were filled with madness, and began to consult with one another what they should do to Jesus.

John 7:19Did not Moses give you the law? and not one of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?

John 10:39Then they sought again to take him, but he escaped from their hands.

Acts 9:4And when he had fallen to the earth, he heard a voice saying to him: Saul, Saul, why do you 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 →

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