John 5:16
Responding to Jewish Leaders Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him.
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- John 15:20 : 20 Remember what I told you,‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my word, they will obey yours too.
- Acts 9:4-5 : 4 He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him,“Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?” 5 So he said,“Who are you, Lord?” He replied,“I am Jesus whom you are persecuting!
- Matt 12:13 : 13 Then he said to the man,“Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out and it was restored, as healthy as the other.
- Mark 3:6 : 6 So the Pharisees went out immediately and began plotting with the Herodians, as to how they could assassinate him.
- Luke 6:11 : 11 But they were filled with mindless rage and began debating with one another what they would do to Jesus.
- John 5:13 : 13 But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped out, since there was a crowd in that place.
- John 7:19-20 : 19 Hasn’t Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill me?” 20 The crowd answered,“You’re possessed by a demon! Who is trying to kill you?”
- John 7:25 : 25 Questions About Jesus’ Identity Then some of the residents of Jerusalem began to say,“Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?
- John 10:39 : 39 Then they attempted again to seize him, but he escaped their clutches.
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17 So he told them,“My Father is working until now, and I too am working.”
18 For this reason the Jewish leaders were trying even harder to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.
19 So Jesus answered them,“I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.
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8 Jesus said to him,“Stand up! Pick up your mat and walk.”
9 Immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his mat and started walking.(Now that day was a Sabbath.)
10 So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed,“It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat.”
11 But he answered them,“The man who made me well said to me,‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”
12 They asked him,“Who is the man who said to you,‘Pick up your mat and walk’?”
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2 But some of the Pharisees said,“Why are you doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?”
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15 The man went away and informed the Jewish leaders that Jesus was the one who had made him well.
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1 The Feast of Shelters After this Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He stayed out of Judea because the Jewish leaders wanted to kill him.
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7 The experts in the law and the Pharisees watched Jesus closely to see if he would heal on the Sabbath, so that they could find a reason to accuse him.
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2 They watched Jesus closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they could accuse him.
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16 Then some of the Pharisees began to say,“This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath.” But others said,“How can a man who is a sinner perform such miraculous signs?” Thus there was a division among them.
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14 But the president of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the crowd,“There are six days on which work should be done! So come and be healed on those days, and not on the Sabbath day.”
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24 So the Pharisees said to him,“Look, why are they doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?”
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2 But when the Pharisees saw this they said to him,“Look, your disciples are doing what is against the law to do on the Sabbath.”
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31 The Jewish leaders picked up rocks again to stone him to death.
32 Jesus said to them,“I have shown you many good deeds from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?”
33 The Jewish leaders replied,“We are not going to stone you for a good deed but for blasphemy, because you, a man, are claiming to be God.”
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14 (Now the day on which Jesus made the mud and caused him to see was a Sabbath.)
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3 So Jesus asked the experts in religious law and the Pharisees,“Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?”
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31 Then, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies should not stay on the crosses on the Sabbath(for that Sabbath was an especially important one), the Jewish leaders asked Pilate to have the victims’ legs broken and the bodies taken down.
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10 A man was there who had a withered hand. And they asked Jesus,“Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?” so that they could accuse him.
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23 But if a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?
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9 Then Jesus said to them,“I ask you, is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil, to save a life or to destroy it?”
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2 They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.
3 They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.
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24 If I had not performed among them the miraculous deeds that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen the deeds and have hated both me and my Father.
25 Now this happened to fulfill the word that is written in their law,‘They hated me without reason.’
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5 Then he said to them,“The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”
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10 Healing on the Sabbath Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath,
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4 Then he said to them,“Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath, or evil, to save a life or destroy it?” But they were silent.
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18 So then the Jewish leaders responded,“What sign can you show us, since you are doing these things?”
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39 Then they attempted again to seize him, but he escaped their clutches.
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19 Another sharp division took place among the Jewish people because of these words.
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15 Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the LORD; anyone who does work on the Sabbath day must surely be put to death.
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2 The chief priests and the experts in the law were trying to find some way to execute Jesus, for they were afraid of the people.
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48 The Judeans replied,“Aren’t we correct in saying that you are a Samaritan and are possessed by a demon?”
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19 Hasn’t Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill me?”
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20 (Jesus spoke these words near the offering box while he was teaching in the temple courts. No one seized him because his time had not yet come.)
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5 Or have you not read in the law that the priests in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are not guilty?
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7 The Jewish leaders replied,“We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, because he claimed to be the Son of God!”
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8 For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”
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22 (His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jewish religious leaders. For the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.
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42 And so, because it was the Jewish day of preparation and the tomb was nearby, they placed Jesus’ body there.
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8 The disciples replied,“Rabbi, the Jewish leaders were just now trying to stone you to death! Are you going there again?”
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42 Jesus’ Burial Now when evening had already come, since it was the day of preparation(that is, the day before the Sabbath),