John 5:17
But Jesus answered them, "My Father is still working, so I am working, too."
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
In Context
16For this cause the Jewish leaders persecuted Jesus, because he did these things on the Sabbath.
Cross References
Psalms 65:6Who by his power forms the mountains,having armed yourself with strength;
Matthew 10:29"Are not two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father's will,
John 14:10Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.
Acts 17:28'For in him we live, and move, and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also his offspring.'
Colossians 1:16For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for 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 →