John 5:17

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

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

16And therefore the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath.

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

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Cross References

Psalms 65:6Who by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with power:

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 speak to you, I speak not from myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

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

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