John 5:17

And Iesus answered them: my father worketh hidder to and I worke.

William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16And therfore the Iewes dyd persecute Iesus and sought the meanes to slee him because he had done these thinges on the Saboth daye.

18Therfore the Iewes sought the moare to kill him not only because he had broken the Saboth: but sayde also that God was his father and made him selfe equall with God.

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Cross References

Matthew 10:29Are not two sparowes solde for a farthinge? And none of them dothe lyght on the grounde with out youre father.

John 14:10Belevest thou not that I am in ye father and the father in me? The wordes that I speake vnto you I speakee not of my selfe: but ye father that dwelleth in me is he that doeth ye workes.

Acts 17:28For in him we lyve move and have oure beynge as certayne of youre awne Poetes sayde. For we are also his generacion.

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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