John 5:17

Geneva Bible (1560)

But Iesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I worke.

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  • John 14:10 : 10 Beleeuest thou not, that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The wordes that I speake vnto you, I speake not of my selfe: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the workes.
  • John 9:4 : 4 I must worke the workes of him that sent me, while it is day: the night commeth when no man can worke.
  • Acts 14:17 : 17 Neuerthelesse, hee left not him selfe without witnes, in that hee did good and gaue vs raine from heauen, & fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with foode, and gladnesse.
  • Acts 17:28 : 28 For in him we liue, and mooue, and haue our being, as also certaine of your owne Poets haue sayd, for we are also his generation.
  • 1 Cor 12:6 : 6 And there are diuersities of operations, but God is the same which worketh all in all.
  • Col 1:16 : 16 For by him were all things created, which are in heauen, and which are in earth, thinges visible and inuisible: whether they be Thrones or Dominions, or Principalities, or Powers, all things were created by him, and for him,
  • Heb 1:3 : 3 Who being the brightnes of the glory, and the ingraued forme of his person, and bearing vp all things by his mightie worde, hath by himselfe purged our sinnes, and sitteth at the right hand of the Maiestie in the highest places,
  • Gen 2:1-2 : 1 Thus the heauens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 For in the seuenth day GOD ended his worke which he had made, and the seuenth day he rested from al his worke, which he had made.
  • Ps 65:6 : 6 He stablisheth the mountaines by his power: and is girded about with strength.
  • Isa 40:26 : 26 Lift vp your eyes on hie, and beholde who hath created these things, and bringeth out their armies by nomber, and calleth them all by names? by the greatnesse of his power & mightie strength nothing faileth.
  • Matt 10:29 : 29 Are not two sparrowes sold for a farthing, and one of them shal not fal on the ground without your Father?

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  • John 5:18-21
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    18 Therefore the Iewes sought the more to kill him: not onely because he had broken the Sabbath: but said also that God was his Father, and made himselfe equall with God.

    19 Then answered Iesus, and said vnto them, Verely, verely I say vnto you, The Sonne can doe nothing of himselfe, saue that he seeth the Father doe: for whatsoeuer things he doth, the same things doeth the Sonne in like maner.

    20 For the Father loueth the Sonne, & sheweth him all things, whatsoeuer he himselfe doeth, and he will shewe him greater workes then these, that ye should marueile.

    21 For likewise as the Father rayseth vp the dead, and quickeneth them, so the Sonne quickeneth whom he will.

  • 16 And therefore the Iewes did persecute Iesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the Sabbath day.

  • 4 I must worke the workes of him that sent me, while it is day: the night commeth when no man can worke.

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    35 If hee called them gods, vnto whome the worde of God was giuen, and the Scripture cannot be broken,

    36 Say ye of him, whome the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the worlde, Thou blasphemest, because I said, I am the Sonne of God?

    37 If I doe not the workes of my Father, beleeue me not.

    38 But if I doe, then though ye beleeue not mee, yet beleeue the workes, that ye may knowe and beleeue, that the Father is in me, and I in him.

  • John 5:36-37
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    76%

    36 But I haue greater witnesse then the witnesse of Iohn: for the workes which the Father hath giuen me to finish, the same workes that I doe, beare witnesse of me, that the Father sent me.

    37 And the Father himselfe, which hath sent me, beareth witnesse of me. Ye haue not heard his voyce at any time, neither haue ye seene his shape.

  • 21 Iesus answered, and saide to them, I haue done one worke, and ye all maruaile.

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    30 I and my Father are one.

    31 Then ye Iewes againe tooke vp stones, to stone him.

    32 Iesus answered them, Many good workes haue I shewed you from my Father: for which of these workes doe ye stone me?

    33 The Iewes answered him, saying, For the good worke we stone thee not, but for blasphemie, and that thou being a man, makest thy selfe God.

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    10 Beleeuest thou not, that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The wordes that I speake vnto you, I speake not of my selfe: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the workes.

    11 Beleeue me, that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me: at the least, beleeue me for the very workes sake.

    12 Verely, verely I say vnto you, he that beleeueth in me, the workes that I doe, hee shall doe also, and greater then these shall he doe: for I goe vnto my Father.

  • John 8:38-39
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    38 I speake that which I haue seene with my Father: and ye doe that which ye haue seene with your father.

    39 They answered, and saide vnto him, Abraham is our father. Iesus said vnto them, If ye were Abrahams children, ye woulde doe the workes of Abraham.

  • 25 Iesus answered them, I tolde you, and ye beleeue not: the workes that I doe in my Fathers Name, they beare witnes of me.

  • John 6:28-30
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    28 Then sayde they vnto him, What shall we doe, that we might worke the workes of God?

    29 Iesus answered, and sayde vnto them, This is the woorke of God, that yee beleeue in him, whome he hath sent.

    30 They sayde therefore vnto him, What signe shewest thou then, that we may see it, and beleeue thee? What doest thou woorke?

  • 5 And he sayd vnto them, The Sonne of man is Lord also of the Sabbath day.

  • 19 Then saide they vnto him, Where is that Father of thine? Iesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor that Father of mine. If ye had knowen me, ye should haue knowen that Father of mine also.

  • 24 If I had not done workes among them which none other man did, they had not had sinne: but nowe haue they both seene, and haue hated both me, and my Father.

  • 30 I can doe nothing of mine owne selfe: as I heare, I iudge: and my iudgement is iust, because I seeke not mine owne will, but the will of the Father who hath sent me.

  • 54 Iesus answered, If I honour my selfe, mine honour is nothing worth: it is my Father that honoureth me, whome ye say, that hee is your God.

  • 34 Iesus saide vnto them, My meate is that I may doe the will of him that sent me, and finish his worke.

  • John 17:4-5
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    4 I haue glorified thee on the earth: I haue finished the worke which thou gauest me to doe.

    5 And nowe glorifie me, thou Father, with thine owne selfe, with the glorie which I had with thee before the world was.

  • 49 Iesus answered, I haue not a deuil, but I honour my Father, and ye haue dishonoured me.

  • 41 Ye do the workes of your father. Then said they to him, We are not borne of fornication: we haue one Father, which is God.

  • John 5:9-11
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    71%

    9 And immediately the man was made whole, and tooke vp his bed, and walked: and the same day was the Sabbath.

    10 The Iewes therefore said to him that was made whole, It is the Sabbath day: it is not lawfull for thee to cary thy bed.

    11 He answered them, He that made me whole, he said vnto me, Take vp thy bed, and walke.

  • 13 Sixe dayes thou shalt labour, and shalt doe all thy worke:

  • 28 Wherefore the Sonne of man is Lorde, euen of the Sabbath.

  • John 8:28-29
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    70%

    28 Then said Iesus vnto them, When ye haue lift vp the Sonne of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I doe nothing of my selfe, but as my Father hath taught me, so I speake these things.

    29 For he that sent me, is with me: the Father hath not left me alone, because I do alwayes those things that please him.

  • 16 Iesus answered them, and saide, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.

  • 9 Sixe dayes shalt thou labour, and doe all thy worke,

  • 23 Because that all men shoulde honour the Sonne, as they honour the Father: he that honoureth not the Sonne, the same honoureth not the Father, which hath sent him.

  • 16 And if I also iudge, my iudgement is true: for I am not alone, but I, and the Father, that sent mee.

  • 17 Therefore doeth my Father loue me, because I lay downe my life, that I might take it againe.

  • 8 For the sonne of man is Lord, euen of the Sabbath.

  • 6 Then Iesus saide vnto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is always readie.