John 5:16

And for this the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath.

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

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 departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who made him whole.

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

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Cross References

Matthew 12:13Then he says to the man: Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, as the other.

Luke 6:11And they were filled with madness, and conferred one with another, as to what they should do to Jesus.

John 7:19Has not Moses given you the law, and none of you keeps the law? Why do ye seek to kill me?

John 10:39Therefore they sought again to seize him; and he went forth, out of their hand.

Acts 9:4and he fell to the earth, and 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 →

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