John 5:17

And Jesus answered them, 'My Father till now doth work, and I work;'

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16and because of this were the Jews persecuting Jesus, and seeking to kill him, because these things he was doing on a sabbath.

18because of this, then, were the Jews seeking the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the sabbath, but he also called God his own Father, making himself equal to God.

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Cross References

Psalms 65:6Establishing mountains by His power, He hath been girded with might,

Matthew 10:29'Are not two sparrows sold for an assar? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father;

John 14:10Believest thou not that I [am] in the Father, and the Father is in me? the sayings that I speak to you, from myself I speak not, and the Father who is abiding in me, Himself doth the works;

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

Colossians 1:16because in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through him, and for him, have been created,

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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