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john 5:16-18

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John 5:16-18

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”

— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

16. And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day. 17. But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. 18. Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

John 5:16-18 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on John 5:16

Theological / Devotional

Told the Jews. Apparently the man identified his Benefactor to the Jews because he sought to soften their condemnation of himself by cooperating in answering their question (see vs. 10-13), and also because he now desired to publish the knowledge of the One who had healed him.

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