John 5:16
And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.
King James Version
In Context
15The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole.
17But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
Cross References
Matthew 12:13Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other.
Luke 6:11And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.
John 7:19Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?
John 10:39Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,
Acts 9:4And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto 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 →