John 5:16

And for this the Jews persecuted Jesus [and sought to kill him], because he had done these things on sabbath.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.

In Context

15The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

17But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto and I work.

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Cross References

Matthew 12:13Then he says to the man, Stretch out thy hand. And he stretched [it] out, and it was restored sound as the other.

Luke 6:11But *they* were filled with madness, and they spoke together among themselves what they should do to Jesus.

John 7:19Has not Moses given you the law, and no one of you practises the law? Why do ye seek to kill me?

John 10:39They sought therefore again to take him; and he went away from out of their hand

Acts 9:4and falling on the earth he heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why dost thou persecute 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 →

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