John 5:16
Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews began to persecute Him.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
15And the man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
17But Jesus answered them, “To this very day My Father is at His work, and I too am working.”
Cross References
Matthew 12:13Then Jesus said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and it was restored to full use, just like the other.
Luke 6:11But the scribes and Pharisees were filled with rage and began to discuss with one another what they might do to Jesus.
John 7:19Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. Why are you trying to kill Me?”
John 10:39At this, they tried again to seize Him, but He escaped their grasp.
Acts 9:4He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute 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 →