John 5:16

And for this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him; because he had done these things on the sabbath.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

15And the man went and told the Jews, that it was Jesus who had cured him.

17But Jesus said to them: My Father worketh until now, and I work.

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Cross References

Matthew 12:13Then said he to the man, Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched out his hand; and it was restored, and like the other.

Luke 6:11And they were filled with envy; and they conferred one with another, what they should do to Jesus.

John 7:19Did not Moses give you the law? Yet no one of you observeth the law.

John 10:39And again they sought to lay hold of him; but he escaped out of their hands;

Acts 9:4And he fell to the ground; and he heard a voice which said to him: Saul! Saul! why persecutest thou me? It will be hard for thee to kick against the goads.

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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