John 5:17

But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.”

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

16For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.

18For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

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Cross References

Psalms 65:6By your power, you form the mountains, having armed yourself with strength.

Matthew 10:29“Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will.

John 14:10Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.

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

Colossians 1:16For by him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth, visible things and invisible things, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things have been 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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