John 5:16
The leaders were angry with Jesus for making people better on the Jewish rest day, so they started to make trouble for him.
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In Context
15Then the man went and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus that made him better.
17Jesus said to them, “God, my father, is always working, and I am always working too.”
Cross References
John 7:19Listen, Moses gave you God’s law, but you mob don’t follow God’s law. You see, you are trying to kill me.”
John 10:39Again the Jewish leaders tried to grab Jesus and put him in jail, but he got away from them.
Acts 9:4He fell down on to the ground, and he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul. Saul. Why are you making trouble for me and hurting 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 →