John 5:17

But, he, answered them—My Father, until even now, is working; and, I, am working.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16And, on this account, were the Jews persecuting Jesus, because, these things, he had been doing, on Sabbath.

18On this account, therefore, the rather, were the Jews seeking to slay him,—because, not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but was calling God, his own Father, making, himself, equal, with, God.

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Cross References

Psalms 65:6Who setteth fast the mountains by his strength, Being girded with might;

Matthew 10:29Are not, two sparrows, for a farthing, sold? And, one from among them, shall not fall upon the ground, without your Father;

John 14:10Believest thou not, that, I, am in the Father, and, the Father, is, in me? The things which I am saying unto you, from myself, I speak not; but, the Father, within me abiding, doeth his works.

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

Colossians 1:16Because, in him, were created all things in the heavens and upon the earth, the things seen and the things unseen, whether thrones or lordships or principalities or authorities,—they all, through him and for him, have been created,

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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