John 5:17

But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh without intermission, and so do I.

1770 John Worsley NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16And for this did the Jews persecute Jesus, and endeavoured to put Him to death; because He had done these things on the sabbath-day.

18For this therefore the Jews sought the more to kill Him, because He had not only broken the sabbath, but had also called God his own Father, making Himself equal with God.

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Cross References

Matthew 10:29Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and not one of them shall fall to the ground without the will of your Father:

John 14:10Dost thou not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? as to the words which I speak to you, I speak them not of my self; and the Father who abideth in me, doth the works.

Acts 17:28For in Him we live and move, and exist; as some also of your own poets have said, "For we his offspring are."

Colossians 1:16for by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers; all 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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