John 5:17
Jesus replied to them, “My Father is working even now, and I, too, am working.”
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
In Context
16Now because of these things the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did these things on the Sabbath.
Cross References
Psalms 65:6For it is you who made the mountains firm, 1 you who are belted with strength. 1
Matthew 10:29Are not two sparrows sold for a small coin? Yet not one of them falls to the ground without your Father's knowledge.
John 14:10Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak from my own authority, but the Father living in me is doing his work.
Acts 17:28For in him we live and move and have our being, just as one of your own poets has said, 'For we also are his offspring.'
Colossians 1:16For by him all things were created, those in the heavens and those on the earth, the visible and the invisible things. Whether thrones or dominions or governments or authorities, all things were created by 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 →