John 5:17

New Century Version

But Jesus said to them, “My Father never stops working, and so I keep working, too.”

Cross References

Psalm 65:6

You made the mountains by your strength; you are dressed in power.

Isaiah 40:26

Look up to the skies. Who created all these stars? He leads out the army of heaven one by one and calls all the stars by name. Because he is strong and powerful, not one of them is missing.

Matthew 10:29

Two sparrows cost only a penny, but not even one of them can die without your Father’s knowing it.

John 10:36

So why do you say that I speak against God because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’? I am the one God chose and sent into the world.

John 14:10

Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I say to you don’t come from me, but the Father lives in me and does his own work.

John 5:16

Because Jesus was doing this on the Sabbath day, some evil people began to persecute him.

John 5:18

This made them try still harder to kill him. They said, “First Jesus was breaking the law about the Sabbath day. Now he says that God is his own Father, making himself equal with God!”

John 9:4

While it is daytime, we must continue doing the work of the One who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work.

Acts 14:17

Yet he proved he is real by showing kindness, by giving you rain from heaven and crops at the right times, by giving you food and filling your hearts with joy.”

Acts 17:28

‘By his power we live and move and exist.’ Some of your own poets have said: ‘For we are his children.’

1 Corinthians 12:6

And there are different ways that God works through people but the same God. God works in all of us in everything we do.

Colossians 1:16

Through his power all things were made—things in heaven and on earth, things seen and unseen, all powers, authorities, lords, and rulers. All things were made through Christ and for Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2:13

Also, we always thank God because when you heard his message from us, you accepted it as the word of God, not the words of humans. And it really is God’s message which works in you who believe.

Hebrews 1:3

The Son reflects the glory of God and shows exactly what God is like. He holds everything together with his powerful word. When the Son made people clean from their sins, he sat down at the right side of God, the Great One in heaven.