John 5:16
and because of this were the Jews persecuting Jesus, and seeking to kill Him, because these things He was doing on a Sabbath.
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In Context
15The man went away, and told the Jews that it is Jesus who made him whole,
17And Jesus answered them, “My Father works until now, and I work”;
Cross References
Matthew 12:13Then He says to the man, “Stretch forth your hand,” and he stretched [it] forth, and it was restored whole as the other.
Luke 6:11and they were filled with madness, and were speaking with one another what they might do to Jesus.
John 7:19has not Moses given you the Law? And none of you does the Law; why do you seek to kill Me?”
John 10:39Therefore they were seeking again to seize Him, and He went forth out of their hand,
Acts 9:4and having fallen on the earth, he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute 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 →