John 5:16

And on account of this the Jews began to persecute Jesus, and were seeking to kill Him, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.

English Majority Text (NT)

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 went away and reported to the Jews that Jesus was the One who had made him well. 1 Responding to Jewish Leaders

17But Jesus answered them, “My Father has been working until now, and I am working.”

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Cross References

Matthew 12:13Then He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and it was restored whole like the other.

Luke 6:11But they were filled with fury, and they were discussing with one another what they might do to Jesus. 1 The Twelve Apostles

John 7:19Has not Moses given you the law, yet none of you keeps the law? Why are you seeking to kill Me?”

John 10:39Therefore they were seeking again to seize Him, but He escaped from their hand.

Acts 9:4And falling on the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting 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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