John 5:16
and because of this the Jews began to persecute Jesus, because he had done it on the Sabbath.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
15The man went to and told the Jews that it was Jesus who made him well;
17But he answered them, "My Father has continued working until now, and I am working too."
Cross References
Matthew 12:13Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand."
Luke 6:11He did so; and his hand was restored. But they were filled with fury, and they began to talk over together what they could do to Jesus.
John 7:19"Did not Moses give you the Law? Yet none of you is keeping the Law. Why are you seeking to kill me?"
John 10:39Then again they attempted to seize him, but he escaped out of their hands,
Acts 9:4He fell to the ground, and heard a voice which said to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting 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 →