John 5:17

And Jesus answered them, “My Father works until now, and I work”;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16and because of this were the Jews persecuting Jesus, and seeking to kill Him, because these things He was doing on a Sabbath.

18because of this, then, were the Jews seeking the more to kill Him, because not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He also called God His own Father, making Himself equal to God.

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Cross References

Psalms 65:6Establishing mountains by His power, || He has been girded with might,

Matthew 10:29Are not two sparrows sold for an assarion? And one of them will not fall on the ground without your Father;

John 14:10Do you not believe that I [am] in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The sayings that I speak to you, I do not speak from Myself, and the Father who is abiding in Me does the works Himself;

Acts 17:28for in Him we live, and move, and are; as certain of your poets have also said: For we are also His offspring.

Colossians 1:16because all things were created in Him, those in the heavens, and those on the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether 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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