John 5:17
But Jesus told them, “My Father is still working, and so am I.”
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
In Context
16So the Jews started to harass Jesus because he was doing things on the Sabbath.
Cross References
Psalms 65:6You made the mountains by your power, for you have great strength.
Matthew 10:29Aren't two sparrows sold for just one penny? But not a single one of them falls to the ground without your Father knowing about it.
John 14:10Don't you believe that I live in the Father and the Father lives in me? The words I speak are not mine; it's the Father living in me who is doing his work.
Acts 17:28In him we live, move, and exist. Just as one of your own poets wrote, ‘We are his family.’”
Colossians 1:16for everything was created through him—in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, empires, rulers, leaders and authorities—everything was 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 →