John 5:17

+ 5:17 (17-19) MP: Messiah is both God and man. (Zech 13:7) + 5:17 (17-23) MP: Messiah will bear reproach, for God’s sake. (Ps 69:7) But Yeshua [Salvation] answered them, “ 'Avi [My Father] is still working, so I am working, too.”

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

16For this cause the Jews [Praisers] persecuted Yeshua [Salvation], and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath ·To cease·.

18+ 5:18. MP: Messiah is both God and man. (Zech 12:10b) For this cause therefore the Jews [Praisers] sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath ·To cease·, but also called God 'Aviv ·his Father·, making himself equal with God.

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Cross References

Psalms 65:6Who by his power forms the mountains, 2 having armed yourself with strength; 1

Matthew 10:29“Are not two sparrows sold for an assarion coin (a trivial cost)? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from 'Avikah ·your Father·’s will,

John 14:10Don’t you trust that I am in haAbba ·the Father·, and haAbba ·the Father· in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but haAbba ·the Father· who lives in me does his works.

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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