John 5:17

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Psalm 65:6

who established the mountains by His strength, who is girded with might.

Isaiah 40:26

Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these things, who brings out their host by number; He calls them all by name, by the greatness of His might and the strength of His power; not one of them is missing.

Matthew 10:29

Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father.

John 10:36

do you say of Him, whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

John 14:10

Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own authority. But the Father who lives in Me does the works.

John 5:16

So the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath day.

John 5:18

So the Jews sought even more to kill Him, because He not only had broken the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God.

John 9:4

I must do the works of Him who sent Me while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work.

Acts 14:17

Yet He did not leave Himself without witness, for He did good and gave us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying our hearts with food and gladness.”

Acts 17:28

‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’

1 Corinthians 12:6

There are various activities, but it is the same God who operates all of them in all people.

Colossians 1:16

For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they are thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers. All things were created by Him and for Him.

1 Thessalonians 2:13

For this reason we thank God without ceasing, because when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you received it not as the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God, which effectively works also in you who believe.

Hebrews 1:3

He is the brightness of His glory, the express image of Himself, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had by Himself purged our sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.