John 5:17

But Jesus answered them: My Father worketh until now; and I work.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16Therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath.

18Hereupon therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he did not only break the sabbath but also said God was his Father, making himself equal to God.

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Cross References

Psalms 65:6Who turneth the sea into dry land, in the river they shall pass on foot: there shall we rejoice in him.

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

John 14:10Do you not believe 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 abideth in me, he doth the works.

Acts 17:28For in him we live and move and are: as some also of your own poets said: For we are also his offspring.

Colossians 1:16For in him were all things created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominations, or principalities, or powers. All things were created by him and in 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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