John 5:17
But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh even until now, and I work.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
In Context
16And for this cause did the Jews persecute Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath.
Cross References
Psalms 65:6Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded about with might:
Matthew 10:29Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and not one of them shall fall on the ground without your Father:
John 14:10Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I say unto you I speak not from myself: but the Father abiding in me doeth his works.
Acts 17:28for in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain even of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Colossians 1:16for in him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and unto 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 →