John 5:16

New International Version

So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him.

Cross References

Matthew 12:13

Then he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out and it was completely restored, just as sound as the other.

Mark 3:6

Then the Pharisees went out and began to plot with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus.

Luke 6:11

But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law were furious and began to discuss with one another what they might do to Jesus.

John 1:19

Now this was John’s testimony when the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him who he was.

John 10:39

Again they tried to seize him, but he escaped their grasp.

John 15:20

Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.

John 5:10

and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.”

John 5:13

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

John 5:15

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

John 5:17

In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.”

John 5:18

For this reason they tried 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 with God.

John 7:21

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

John 7:25

At that point some of the people of Jerusalem began to ask, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?