John 5:16
Therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
15The man went his way, and told the Jews, that it was Jesus who had made him whole.
17But Jesus answered them: My Father worketh until now; and I work.
Cross References
Matthew 12:13Then he saith to the man: Stretch forth thy hand; and he stretched it forth, and it was restored to health even as the other.
Luke 6:11And they were filled with madness; and they talked one with another, what they might do to Jesus.
John 7:19Did Moses not give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law?
John 10:39They sought therefore to take him; and he escaped out of their hands.
Acts 9:4And falling on the ground, he heard a voice saying to him: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou 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 →