John 5:16
And for this did the Jews persecute Jesus, and endeavoured to put Him to death; because He had done these things on the sabbath-day.
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
In Context
15And the man went away, and told the Jews, that it was Jesus who had healed him.
17But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh without intermission, and so do I.
Cross References
Matthew 12:13Then saith He to the man, Stretch out thine hand: and he stretched it out, and it was made sound like the other.
Luke 6:11And they were filled with confusion: and consulted together, what they might do to Jesus.
John 7:19Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you observeth the law? wherefore else do ye seek to kill me?
John 10:39Therefore they sought again to seize Him; but He escaped out of their hand, and went away again beyond Jordan,
Acts 9:4and he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou 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 →