Devine Scripture

John 5:17

John chapter 5 · verse 17 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh even until now, and I work.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh even until now, and I work.

Context

v.16And for this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath.

v.17This passage

v.18For this cause therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only brake the sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Hebrews 1:3

    who being the effulgence of his glory, and the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had made purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

  • Colossians 1:16

    for in him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and unto him;

  • Genesis 2:1

    And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

  • John 14:10

    Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I say unto you I speak not from myself: but the Father abiding in me doeth his works.

  • Matthew 10:29

    Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? and not one of them shall fall on the ground without your Father:

  • Acts 17:28

    for in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain even of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.