John 5:16
And for this reason the Jews were turned against Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
15The man went away and said to the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
17But his answer was: My Father is still working even now, and so I am working.
Cross References
Matthew 12:13Then said he to the man, Put out your hand. And he put it out, and it was made as well as the other.
Luke 6:11But they were full of wrath, and were talking together about what they might do to Jesus.
John 7:19Did not Moses give you the law? Even so, not one of you keeps the law. Why have you a desire to put me to death?
John 10:39Then again they made an attempt to take him; but he got away from them.
Acts 9:4And he went down on the earth, and a voice said to him, Saul, Saul, why are you attacking me so cruelly?
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 →