John 5:17

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

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16And for this the Jews persecuted Jesus [and sought to kill him], because he had done these things on sabbath.

18For this therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he had not only violated the sabbath, but also said that God was his own Father, making himself equal with God.

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Cross References

Psalms 65:6Who by his strength established the mountains, being girded with power;

Matthew 10:29Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall to the ground without your Father;

John 14:10Believest thou not that I [am] in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words which I speak to you I do not speak from myself; but the Father who abides in me, he does the works.

Acts 17:28for in him we live and move and exist; as also some of the poets amongst you have said, For we are also his offspring.

Colossians 1:16because by him were created all things, the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or authorities: all things have been created 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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