John 5:16
So the Jews started to harass Jesus because he was doing things on the Sabbath.
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In Context
15The man went and told the Jews it was Jesus who had healed him.
17But Jesus told them, “My Father is still working, and so am I.”
Cross References
Matthew 12:13Then he said to the man, “Hold out your hand.” The man held out his hand, and it was healed, just as healthy as the other hand.
Luke 6:11But they flew into a rage, and began to discuss what they could do to Jesus.
John 7:19Moses gave you the law, didn't he? Yet none of you keeps the law! Why are you trying to kill me?”
John 10:39Once again they tried to arrest him, but he escaped from them.
Acts 9:4He fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying, “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 →