John 5:17

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But Jesus answered them, 'My Father is working until now, and I too am working.'

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  • John 14:10 : 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, the Father who dwells in me does his work.
  • John 9:4 : 4 'As long as it is day, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.'
  • Acts 14:17 : 17 Yet, he did not leave himself without a witness, for he gave you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling you with food and gladness in your hearts.
  • Acts 17:28 : 28 For in him we live and move and have our being, as some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also his offspring.'
  • 1 Cor 12:6 : 6 There are different kinds of workings, but the same God works all of them in all people.
  • Col 1:16 : 16 For in Him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through Him and for Him.
  • Heb 1:3 : 3 The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of His nature, sustaining all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.
  • Gen 2:1-2 : 1 So the heavens, the earth, and everything in them were completed. 2 On the seventh day, God finished the work He had been doing. On that day, He rested from all the work He had accomplished.
  • Ps 65:6 : 6 You answer us with awesome and righteous deeds, O God of our salvation, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas.
  • Isa 40:26 : 26 Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.
  • Matt 10:29 : 29 Aren’t two sparrows sold for a small coin? Yet not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s care.

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  • John 5:18-21
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    83%

    18Because of this, the Jews were all the more determined to kill Him, not only because He was breaking the Sabbath, but also because He was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

    19So Jesus answered them, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing by Himself; He only does what He sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does in the same way.'

    20'For the Father loves the Son and shows Him everything that He does. And He will show Him greater works than these, so that you may be amazed.'

    21'Just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever He wills.'

  • John 5:16
    79%

    16Because of this, the Jews began to persecute Jesus and tried to kill Him, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.

  • John 9:4
    76%

    4'As long as it is day, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.'

  • John 10:35-38
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    35If he called them ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken—

    36what about the one whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world? Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’?

    37If I do not do the works of my Father, do not believe me.

    38But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.

  • John 5:36-37
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    36But I have testimony greater than John's: the works the Father has given Me to complete, the very works I am doing, testify about Me that the Father has sent Me.

    37The Father who sent me has Himself testified about me. You have never heard His voice or seen His form.

  • John 7:21
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    21Jesus answered them, 'I did one work, and you all marvel.

  • John 10:30-33
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    30I and the Father are one.

    31Again, the Jews picked up stones to stone him.

    32Jesus answered them, 'I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these works are you stoning me?'

    33The Jews answered him, 'We are not stoning you for a good work, but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.'

  • John 14:10-12
    3 verses
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    10Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, the Father who dwells in me does his work.

    11Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Or at least believe because of the works themselves.

    12Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do, and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.

  • John 8:38-39
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    74%

    38I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father."

    39They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.

  • John 10:25
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    25Jesus answered them, 'I told you, and you do not believe. The works I do in my Father's name testify about me,

  • John 6:28-30
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    28Then they said to him, 'What must we do to perform the works of God?'

    29Jesus answered them, 'This is the work of God: that you believe in the one he has sent.'

    30So they said to him, 'What sign will you perform, so that we may see and believe you? What will you do?'

  • Luke 6:5
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    5Then He said to them, "The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath."

  • John 8:19
    73%

    19Then they asked him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also."

  • John 15:24
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    24If I had not done the works among them that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen these works, and yet they have hated both me and my Father.

  • John 5:30
    72%

    30I can do nothing on My own. As I hear, I judge, and My judgment is just because I do not seek My own will but the will of Him who sent Me.

  • John 8:54
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    54Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, whom you claim as your God.

  • John 4:34
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    34Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to accomplish his work.

  • John 17:4-5
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    71%

    4I have glorified You on earth by completing the work You gave Me to do.

    5And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world existed.

  • John 8:49
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    49Jesus answered, "I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.

  • John 8:41
    71%

    41You are doing the works of your father." They said to him, "We are not illegitimate children. We have one Father—God."

  • John 5:9-11
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    9Immediately, the man was made well; he picked up his mat and began to walk. Now that day was the Sabbath.

    10So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, 'It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your mat.'

    11But he answered them, 'The one who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’'

  • Deut 5:13
    71%

    13Six days you shall labor and do all your work.

  • Mark 2:28
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    28'So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.'

  • John 8:28-29
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    28So Jesus said to them, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he and that I do nothing on my own, but speak just as the Father taught me.

    29The one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, because I always do what pleases him."

  • John 7:16
    70%

    16Jesus answered them, 'My teaching is not Mine, but comes from the One who sent Me.

  • Exod 20:9
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    9Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

  • John 5:23
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    23'So that everyone may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.'

  • John 8:16
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    16And even if I judge, my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me.

  • John 10:17
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    17The Father loves me because I lay down my life so that I may take it up again.

  • Matt 12:8
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    8For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.

  • John 7:6
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    6Jesus said to them, 'My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.'