John 5:16

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Therefore, the Jews began persecuting  Jesus  because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

Cross References

John 15:20

Remember the word I spoke to you: “A servant is not greater than his master.”   If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word,   they will also keep yours.

John 10:39

Then they were trying again to seize him,  but he escaped their grasp.

John 7:25

Some of the people of Jerusalem  were saying, ‘Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?

John 5:13

But the man who was healed did not know who it was,  because Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

Luke 6:11

They, however, were filled with rage and started discussing with one another what they might do to Jesus.

Mark 3:6

Immediately the Pharisees  went out and started plotting  with the Herodians  against him, how they might kill  him.

Matthew 12:13

Then he told the man, ‘Stretch out your hand.’ So he stretched it out, and it was restored,  as good as the other.

John 1:19

This was John’s testimony when the Jews from Jerusalem  sent priests  and Levites  to ask him, ‘Who are you? ’

John 5:10

and so the Jews  said to the man who had been healed, ‘This is the Sabbath.  The law prohibits you from picking up your mat.’

John 5:15

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

John 5:17

Jesus responded to them, ‘My Father   is still working, and I am working also.’

John 5:18

This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill him:  Not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal to God.

John 7:21

‘I performed one work,   and you are all amazed,’ Jesus answered.