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John 5:17

But Jesus answered them, My Father works even until now, and I work.

Revised King James New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16And therefore the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.

18Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but also said that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

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Cross References

Matthew 10:29Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? and not one of them shall fall to the ground without your Father's consent.

John 14:10Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak to you I do not speak of my own accord: but the Father who dwells in me, he does his works.

Acts 17:28For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as some of your own poets have said, For we also are his offspring.

Colossians 1:16For by him were all things created that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or rulers, or authorities: all things were created by 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 →

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