John 5:17

But his answer was: My Father is still working even now, and so I am working.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16And for this reason the Jews were turned against Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

18For this cause the Jews had an even greater desire to put Jesus to death, because not only did he not keep the Sabbath but he said God was his Father, so making himself equal with God.

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Cross References

Psalms 65:6\65:5\You will give us an answer in righteousness by great acts of power, O God of our salvation; you who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of the far-off lands of the sea;

Matthew 10:29Are not sparrows two a farthing? and not one of them comes to an end without your Father:

John 14:10Have you not faith that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words which I say to you, I say not from myself: but the Father who is in me all the time does his works.

Acts 17:28For in him we have life and motion and existence; as certain of your verse writers have said, For we are his offspring.

Colossians 1:16For by him all things were made, in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, authorities, lords, rulers, and powers; all things were made 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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