John 5:17

But he, Jeshu, said to them, My Father until now worketh, I also work.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16On account of this the Jihudoyee persecuted Jeshu, and sought to kill him, because these things he had done on the shabath.

18But on this account the more sought the Jihudoyee to kill him, not only because he had loosed the shabath, but also that of Aloha he had said that he was his Father, and had made himself equal with Aloha.

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Cross References

Matthew 10:29Are not two sparrows sold for an asor? yet one of them, without your Father, doth not fall upon the earth.

John 14:10Believest thou not that I am in my Father and my Father in me? And these words that I speak, I speak not from myself, but my Father who dwelleth in me, he doeth these works.

Acts 17:28For in him we live, and are moved, and are; as also one of your sages hath said, From him is our descent.

Colossians 1:16And by him was every thing created that is in heaven and in earth; all that is seen, and all that is unseen, whether thrones or dominions, or princes or powers; all things by his hand and through him were created;

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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