John 5:18 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered; and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.

Matthew 12:5

Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath day the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are guiltless?

John 1:19

And this is the witness of John, when the Jews sent unto him from Jerusalem priests and Levites to ask him, Who art thou?

John 10:30

I and the Father are one.

John 10:33

The Jews answered him, For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.

John 14:23

Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

John 14:9

Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and dost thou not know me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; how sayest thou, Shew us the Father?

John 19:7

The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by that law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.

John 5:15

The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus which had made him whole.

John 5:16

And for this cause did the Jews persecute Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath.

John 5:17

But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh even until now, and I work.

John 5:23

that all may honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which sent him.

John 7:1

And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Judaea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

John 7:19

Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you doeth the law? Why seek ye to kill me?

John 8:54

Jesus answered, If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing: it is my Father that glorifieth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God;

John 8:58

Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.

Philippians 2:6

who, being in the form of God, counted it not a prize to be on an equality with God,

Revelation 22:1

And he shewed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,

Revelation 22:3

And there shall be no curse any more: and the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be therein: and his servants shall do him service;