John 5:17
But Jesus answered them, “Even now, my Father is working, and I am working.”
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
In Context
16Because of this, the Jews were persecuting Jesus, for he was doing these things on the Sabbath.
Cross References
Psalms 65:6He converts the sea into dry land. They will cross the river on foot. There, we will rejoice in him.
Matthew 10:29Are not two sparrows sold for one small coin? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father.
John 14:10Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I am speaking to you, I do not speak from myself. But the Father abiding in me, he does these works.
Acts 17:28‘For in him we live, and move, and exist.’ Just as some of your own poets have said. ‘For we are also of his family.’
Colossians 1:16For in him was created everything in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominations, or principalities, or powers. All things were created through him and in 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 →