John 5:17

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

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he had done these things on the sabbath-day.

18Therefore sought they the more to kill him, because he had not only broken the sabbath, but called God his own Father, setting himself on an equality with God.

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Cross References

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

John 14:10Dost thou not believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? the words which I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father, who dwelleth in me, he performeth these works.

Acts 17:28for from him we derive life, and power of motion, and existence; as also some of your own poets have said, “For we are even his offspring.”

Colossians 1:16for by him were all things created, celestial and terrestrial, visible or invisible, whether thrones, or dominations, or principalities, or powers, all 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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