John 5:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ For this reason the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because he was not only breaking the Sabbath but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ This made the Jews more determined than ever to kill Him [to do away with Him]; because He not only was breaking (weakening, violating) the Sabbath, but He actually was speaking of God as being [in a special sense] His own Father, making Himself equal [putting Himself on a level] with God.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ For this cause therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only brake the sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ For this reason the Jewish leaders wanted even more to kill him—not only because he was doing away with the Sabbath but also because he called God his own Father, thereby making himself equal with God.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ And so, because of this, the Jews were seeking to kill him even more so. For not only did he break the Sabbath, but he even said that God was his Father, making himself equal to God.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ Whereupon therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he did not only break the sabbath, but also said God was his Father, making himself equal to God.

John 5:18 Cross References

Zechariah 13:7

“Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is my associate,” says the Lord of hosts. “Strike the shepherd, that the sheep may be scattered; I will turn my hand against the little ones.

Matthew 12:5

Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and yet are guiltless?

John 1:19

This is the testimony given by John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”

John 10:30

The Father and I are one.”

John 10:33

The Jews answered, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, though only a human, are making yourself God.”

John 14:23

Jesus answered him, “Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.

John 14:9

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

John 19:7

The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has claimed to be the Son of God.”

John 5:15

The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

John 5:16

Therefore the Jews started persecuting Jesus, because he was doing such things on the Sabbath.

John 5:17

But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, and I also am working.”

John 5:23

so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

John 7:1

After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He did not wish to go about in Judea because the Jews were looking for an opportunity to kill him.

John 7:19

“Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why are you looking for an opportunity to kill me?”

John 8:54

Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, he of whom you say, ‘He is our God,’

John 8:58

Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, before Abraham was, I am.”

Philippians 2:6

who, though he existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped,

Revelation 22:1

Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb

Revelation 22:3

Nothing accursed will be found there any more. But the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him;