John 5:16

The Text-Critical English New Testament

So the Jews began persecuting Jesus and seeking to kill him, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

Cross References

Matthew 12:13

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

Mark 3:6

Then the Pharisees went out and immediately took counsel with the Herodians against Jesus as to how they might destroy him.

Luke 6:11

But the scribes and Pharisees were filled with mindless rage and discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus.

John 1:19

This was the testimony of John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are yoʋ?”

John 10:39

Again they sought to arrest him, but he eluded 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 kept my word, they will keep yours also.

John 5:10

So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for yoʋ to pick up yoʋr mat.”

John 5:13

But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away, since there was a crowd in that place.

John 5:15

Then the man went and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

John 5:17

But Jesus responded to them, “My Father is still working even now, and I too am working.”

John 5:18

So the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because 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 answered them, “I did one work, and you are all amazed.

John 7:25

Now some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, “Is this not the man whom they are seeking to kill?