John 5:17

But Iesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I worke.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16And therefore the Iewes did persecute Iesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the Sabbath day.

18Therefore the Iewes sought the more to kill him: not onely because he had broken the Sabbath: but said also that God was his Father, and made himselfe equall with God.

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Cross References

Psalms 65:6He stablisheth the mountaines by his power: and is girded about with strength.

Matthew 10:29Are not two sparrowes sold for a farthing, and one of them shall not fal on the ground without your Father?

John 14:10Beleeuest thou not, that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The wordes that I speake vnto you, I speake not of my selfe: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the workes.

Acts 17:28For in him we liue, and mooue, and haue our being, as also certaine of your owne Poets haue sayd, for we are also his generation.

Colossians 1:16For by him were all things created, which are in heauen, and which are in earth, thinges visible and inuisible: whether they be Thrones or Dominions, or Principalities, or Powers, 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 →

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