John 5:17

But Jesus responded to them, “My Father is still working even now, and I too am working.”

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16So the Jews began persecuting Jesus and seeking to kill him, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

18So the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

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Cross References

Matthew 10:29Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father's consent.

John 14:10Do yoʋ not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who abides in me does his works.

Acts 17:28For in him we live and move and have our being, as even some of your own poets have said: ‘For we also are his offspring.’

Colossians 1:16For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions, rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.

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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