John 5:16
And on this account the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
15The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
17But he answered them, My Father is working up to this time, and I work.
Cross References
Matthew 12:13Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored sound as the other.
Luke 6:11But they were filled with madness, and conferred with one another as to what they should do to Jesus.
John 7:19Hath not Moses given you the Law? and none of you keepeth the Law! Why do ye seek to kill me?
John 10:39They sought therefore to seize him; and he went forth out of their hands.
Acts 9:4and he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou 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 →