John 5:16
Because of this, the Jews were persecuting Jesus, for he was doing these things on the Sabbath.
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In The King James Version
In Context
15This man went away, and he reported to the Jews that it was Jesus who had given him health.
17But Jesus answered them, “Even now, my Father is working, and I am working.”
Cross References
Matthew 12:13Then he said to the man, “Extend your hand.” And he extended it, and it was restored to health, just like the other one.
Luke 6:11Then they were filled with madness, and they discussed with one another, what, in particular, they might do about Jesus.
John 7:19Did not Moses give you the law? And yet not one among you keeps the law!
John 10:39Therefore, they sought to apprehend him, but he escaped from their hands.
Acts 9:4And falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting 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 →