John 5:16
and on this account the Jews began to persecute Jesus--because He did these things on the Sabbath.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
15The man went and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had restored him to health;
17His reply to their accusation was, "My Father works unceasingly, and so do I."
Cross References
Matthew 12:13Then He said to the man, "Stretch out your arm." And he stretched it out, and it was restored quite sound like the other.
Luke 6:11But they were filled with madness, and began to discuss with one another what they should do to Jesus.
John 7:19Did not Moses give you the Law? And yet not a man of you obeys the Law. Why do you want to kill me?"
John 10:39This made them once more try to arrest Him, but He withdrew out of their power.
Acts 9:4and falling to the ground he heard a voice which said to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?"
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 →