John 5:16
Now because of these things the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did these things on the Sabbath.
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In Context
15The man went away and reported to the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him healthy.
17Jesus replied to them, “My Father is working even now, and I, too, am working.”
Cross References
Matthew 12:13Then Jesus said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and it was restored to health, just like the other hand.
Luke 6:11But they were filled with anger and they talked to each other about what they might do to Jesus.
John 7:19Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?”
John 10:39They tried to seize him again, but he went away out of their hand.
Acts 9:4and he fell upon the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you 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 →