John 5:17

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

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16And for this reason did the Jews persecute Jesus, and seek to kill him, because he had done these things on the sabbath.

18For this reason, therefore, the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he had not only broken the sabbath, but also said that God was his own father, making himself equal with God.

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Cross References

Matthew 10:29Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and yet not one of them shall fall upon the ground with out your Father.

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

Acts 17:28For in him we live, and move, and have our being: as also some of your own poets have said: For we his offspring are.

Colossians 1:16for by him were all things created, things in heaven and things in earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or authorities; all things were created by him, and for him:

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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