John 5:16

New International Reader's Version

Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath day. So the Jewish leaders began to oppose him.

Cross References

Matthew 12:13

Then Jesus said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out. It had been made as good as new. It was just as good as the other hand.

Mark 3:6

Then the Pharisees went out and began to make plans with the Herodians. They wanted to kill Jesus.

Luke 6:11

But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law were very angry. They began to talk to one another about what they might do to Jesus.

John 1:19

The Jewish leaders in Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask John who he was. John spoke the truth to them.

John 10:39

Again they tried to arrest him. But he escaped from them.

John 15:20

Remember what I told you. I said, ‘A slave is not more important than his master.’ (John 13:16) If people hated me and tried to hurt me, they will do the same to you. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.

John 5:10

So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath day. The law does not allow you to carry your mat.”

John 5:13

The one who was healed had no idea who it was. Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

John 5:15

The man went away. He told the Jewish leaders it was Jesus who had made him well.

John 5:17

Jesus defended himself. He said to them, “My Father is always doing his work. He is working right up to this day. I am working too.”

John 5:18

For this reason the Jewish leaders tried even harder to kill him. According to them, Jesus was not only breaking the law of the Sabbath day. He was even calling God his own Father. He was making himself equal with God.

John 7:21

Jesus said to them, “I did one miracle, and you are all amazed.

John 7:25

Then some of the people of Jerusalem began asking questions. They said, “Isn’t this the man some people are trying to kill?