John 5:17

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

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16And for this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him; because he had done these things on the sabbath.

18And for this, the Jews sought the more to kill him, not only because he had broken the sabbath, but because he had said of God, that he was his Father, and had equalled himself with God.

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Cross References

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

John 14:10Believest thou not, that I am in my Father, and my Father in me? And the words which I speak, I speak not from myself: but my Father, who dwelleth in me, he doeth these works.

Acts 17:28for in him it is we live, and move, and exist: as one of your own wise men hath said: From him is our descent.

Colossians 1:16and by him was created every thing that is in heaven and on earth, all that is seen and all that is unseen, whether thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or sovereignties; every thing was through him, and was created by 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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