John 5:16
And that was why they began to persecute Jesus – because he did things of this kind on the Sabbath.
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In Context
15The man went away, and told the authorities that it was Jesus who had cured him.
17But Jesus replied, ‘My Father works to this very hour, and I work also.’
Cross References
Matthew 12:13Then he said to the man. ‘Stretch out your hand.’ The man stretched it out; and it had become as sound as the other.
Luke 6:11But the teachers of the Law and the Pharisees were mad with rage, and consulted together what they could do to Jesus.
John 7:19Was not it Moses who gave you the Law? Yet not one of you obeys it! Why are you seeking to put me to death?’
John 10:39The authorities again sought to arrest him; but he escaped their hands.
Acts 9:4He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him – ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting 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 →