John 5:16
So the Jews began persecuting Jesus and seeking to kill him, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.
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In Context
15Then the man went and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
17But Jesus responded to them, “My Father is still working even now, and I too am working.”
Cross References
Matthew 12:13Then he said to the man, “Stretch out yoʋr hand.” So he stretched it out, and it was restored, becoming as sound as the other.
Luke 6:11But the scribes and Pharisees were filled with mindless rage and discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus.
John 7:19Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why are you seeking to kill me?”
John 10:39Once again they tried to arrest him, but he eluded their grasp.
Acts 9:4Falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are yoʋ 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 →