John 5:17

But Jesus answered them, “Until now, my Father works, I also work.”

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

16So because of this the Jews began persecuting Jesus and trying to kill Him, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.

18So because of this they wanted to kill Him all the more, because He was not only breaking the Sabbath but was even saying that God was 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? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father's will.

John 14:10Don't you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own; rather it is the Father who dwells in me who does the works.

Acts 17:28because 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 1:16because by Him all things were created —those in the heavens and those on the earth, things visible and things 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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