John 5:16
And therefore the Iewes did persecute Iesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the Sabbath day.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
15The man departed and tolde the Iewes that it was Iesus, which had made him whole.
17But Iesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I worke.
Cross References
Matthew 12:13Then said he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it foorth, and it was made whole as the other.
Luke 6:11Then they were filled full of madnes, and communed one with another, what they might doe to Iesus.
John 7:19Did not Moses giue you a Law, and yet none of you keepeth the lawe? Why goe ye about to kill me?
John 10:39Againe they went about to take him: but he escaped out of their handes,
Acts 9:4And hee fell to the earth, and heard a voyce, saying to him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou 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 →