John 5:16
So because of this the Jews began persecuting Jesus and trying to kill Him, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
15The man went off and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
17But Jesus answered them, “Until now, my Father works, I also work.”
Cross References
Matthew 12:13Then He says 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 rage, and began to discuss with one another what they might do to Jesus.
John 7:19“Did not Moses give you the Law? And yet not one of you keeps the Law! Why do you want to kill me?”
John 10:39So they tried again to seize Him, but He escaped from their hand.
Acts 9:4and falling to 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 →