John 5:16

For this cause the Jewish leaders persecuted Jesus, because he did these things on the Sabbath.

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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

15The man went away, and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.

17But Jesus answered them, "My Father is still working, so I am working, too."

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Cross References

Matthew 12:13Then he told the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out; and it was restored whole, just like the other.

Luke 6:11But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another about what they might do to Jesus.

John 7:19Did not Moses give you the Law, and yet none of you keeps the Law? Why do you seek to kill me?"

John 10:39They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.

Acts 9:4He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute 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 →

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