John 5:16

Therefore the Jews pursued Jesus, for he did this thing in the sabbath. (And so the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did this miracle on the Sabbath.)

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

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

In Context

15(Then) That man went, and told to the Jews, that it was Jesus that made him whole.

17And Jesus answered to them, My Father worketh till now, and I work.

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Cross References

Matthew 12:13Then he said to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched (it) forth; and it was restored to health as the other.

Luke 6:11And they were full-filled with unwisdom [or Soothly they were filled with unwisdom], and spake together, what they should do of Jesus (or what they would do about Jesus).

John 7:19Whether Moses gave not to you a law, and none of you doeth [or keepeth] the law? What seek ye to slay me? (Did not Moses give you the Law? and yet none of you obeyeth the Law. Why do ye seek to kill me?)

John 10:39Therefore they sought to take (hold of) him, and he went out of their hands.

Acts 9:4and he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, what pursuest thou me? (or 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 →

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