John 5:17

And He responded to them, My Father worketh until now, and I work.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16And on account of this the Jews continued to persecute Jesus, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.

18Therefore the Jews the more sought to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but said that God was His Father, making himself equal to God.

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Cross References

Matthew 10:29Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? and one of them will not fall to the ground without your Father.

John 14:10Dost thou not believe, that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words which I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father who abideth in me doeth His own works.

Acts 17:28For in him we live and move and have our being, as indeed certain ones of your own poets have said, For we are truly his offspring.

Colossians 1:16because in him all things are created, in the heavens and upon the earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All things were created by him, and unto 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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