John 5:17

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

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16And 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.

18Because of this the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but also He called God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

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Cross References

Matthew 10:29Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them shall fall on the ground apart from the will of your Father.

John 14:10Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words which I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who abides in Me 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 we are also His offspring.’

Colossians 1:16for by Him all things were created, those in the heavens and those on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through 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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