John 5:16
Good News Translation
So they began to persecute Jesus, because he had done this healing on a Sabbath.

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore the Jews started persecuting Jesus, because he was doing such things on the sabbath.

Contemporary English Version
They started making a lot of trouble for Jesus because he did things like this on the Sabbath.

New American Bible
Therefore, the Jews began to persecute Jesus because he did this on a sabbath.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath.

persecute.

John 15:20 Remember my word that I said to you: The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they have kept my word, they will keep yours also.

Acts 9:4,5 And falling on the ground, he heard a voice saying to him: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? . . .

and sought.

John 5:13 But he who was healed knew not who it was: for Jesus went aside from the multitude standing in the place.

John 7:19,20,25 Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? . . .

John 10:39 They sought therefore to take him: and he escaped out of their hands.

Matthew 12:13 Then he saith to the man: Stretch forth thy hand; and he stretched it forth, and it was restored to health even as the other.

Mark 3:6 And the Pharisees going out, immediately made a consultation with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

Luke 6:11 And they were filled with madness: and they talked one with another, what they might do to Jesus.

Context
The Father and the Son
15The man went his way and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him whole. 16Therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath. 17But Jesus answered them: My Father worketh until now; and I work.…
Cross References
John 1:19
And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and Levites to him, to ask him: Who art thou?

John 5:10
The Jews therefore said to him that was healed: It is the sabbath. It is not lawful for thee to take up thy bed.

John 5:15
The man went his way and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him whole.

John 5:17
But Jesus answered them: My Father worketh until now; and I work.

John 5:18
Hereupon therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he did not only break the sabbath but also said God was his Father, making himself equal to God.

John 7:21
Jesus answered and said to them: One work I have done: and you all wonder.

John 5:15
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