John 5:17
But he answered them, My Father is working up to this time, and I work.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
In Context
16And on this account the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath.
Cross References
Psalms 65:6Thou makest fast the mountains by thy power, Being girded with strength!
Matthew 10:29Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? and not one of them shall fall to the ground without your Father.
John 14:10Dost thou not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you, I speak not from myself; but the Father, who dwelleth in me, doeth his works.
Acts 17:28For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as also some of your own poets have said: “For we are also his offspring.”
Colossians 1:16for in him were created all things, those in the heavens, and those on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers, 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 →