John 5:17

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

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

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, because he did these things on the sabbath.

18For this therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath, but also called God his Father, making himself equal with God.

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Cross References

Matthew 10:29Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.

John 14:10Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you I speak not of myself; but the Father who dwells in me, he does the works.

Acts 17:28for in him we live, and move, and have our being; as also some of your own poets have said: For his offspring also are we.

Colossians 1:16because in him were all things created, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers; 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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