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John 5:17 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. "
John 5:17
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole.
And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.
But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
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John 5:1
"After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem."
John 5:2
"Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches."
John 5:3
"In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water."
John 5:4
"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 whatsoever disease he had."
John 5:5
"And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years."
John 5:6
"When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?"
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