John 5:17

But he answered them, "My Father has continued working until now, and I am working too."

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16and because of this the Jews began to persecute Jesus, because he had done it on the Sabbath.

18For this reason the Jews continued to seek the more eagerly to put him to death, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was actually speaking of God as his own Father, thus making himself of God’s equal.

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Cross References

Matthew 10:29"Are not two sparrows sold for a half-penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your father.

John 14:10"Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you I speak not of myself; but the Father, who ever dwells in me, is doing his own work.

Acts 17:28"for in him we live and move and have our being; as certain even of your own poets have said, "‘For we also are his offspring.’

Colossians 1:16for in him was the universe created, things in heaven and on earth, the seen and the unseen, thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers; by him and for him all have been created;

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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