John 5:17

But Jesus replied, ‘My Father works to this very hour, and I work also.’

Open English Bible (UK)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16And that was why they began to persecute Jesus – because he did things of this kind on the Sabbath.

18This made the authorities all the more eager to kill him, because not only was he doing away with the Sabbath, but he actually called God his own Father – putting himself on an equality with God.

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Cross References

Psalms 65:6By your strength you establish the hills, you are armed with might;

Matthew 10:29Are not two sparrows sold for a one copper coin? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father’s knowledge.

John 14:10Don’t you believe that I am in union with the Father, and the Father with me? In giving you my teaching I am not speaking on my own authority; but the Father himself, always in union with me, does his own work.

Acts 17:28for in him we live and move and are. To use the words of some of your own poets – “His offspring, too, are we.”

Colossians 1:16for in him was created all that is in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible – angels and archangels and all the powers of heaven.

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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