John 5:17

Conservative English Version

But Jesus said, "My Father has never stopped working, and that is why I keep on working."

Cross References

Psalm 65:6

You are strong, and your mighty power put the mountains in place.

Isaiah 40:26

Look at the evening sky! Who created the stars? Who gave them each a name? Who leads them like an army? The LORD is so powerful that none of the stars are ever missing.

Matthew 10:29

Aren't two sparrows sold for only a penny? But your Father knows when any one of them falls to the ground.

John 10:36

So why do you accuse me of a terrible sin for saying that I am the Son of God? After all, it is the Father who prepared me for this work. He is also the one who sent me into the world.

John 14:10

Don't you believe that I am one with the Father and that the Father is one with me? What I say isn't said on my own. The Father who lives in me does these things.

John 5:16

They started making a lot of trouble for Jesus because he did things like this on the Sabbath.

John 5:18

Now the leaders wanted to kill Jesus for two reasons. First, he had broken the law of the Sabbath. But even worse, he had said that God was his Father, which made him equal with God.

John 9:4

As long as it is day, we must do what the one who sent me wants me to do. When night comes, no one can work.

Acts 14:17

But he showed that he was there by the good things he did. God sends rain from heaven and makes your crops grow. He gives food to you and makes your hearts glad.

Acts 17:28

and he gives us the power to live, to move, and to be who we are. "We are his children," just as some of your poets have said.

1 Corinthians 12:6

and we can each do different things. Yet the same God works in all of us and helps us in everything we do.

Colossians 1:16

Everything was created by him, everything in heaven and on earth, everything seen and unseen, including all forces and powers, and all rulers and authorities. All things were created by God's Son, and everything was made for him.

1 Thessalonians 2:13

We always thank God that you believed the message we preached. It came from him, and it isn't something made up by humans. You accepted it as God's message, and now he is working in you.

Hebrews 1:3

God's Son has all the brightness of God's own glory and is like him in every way. By his own mighty word, he holds the universe together. After the Son had washed away our sins, he sat down at the right side of the glorious God in heaven.