John 5:17

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

So he told 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 that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous deeds.
  • John 9:4 : 4 We must perform the deeds of the one who sent me as long as it is daytime. Night is coming when no one can work.
  • Acts 14:17 : 17 yet he did not leave himself without a witness by doing good, by giving you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying you with food and your hearts with joy.”
  • Acts 17:28 : 28 For in him we live and move about and exist, as even some of your own poets have said,‘For we too are his offspring.’
  • 1 Cor 12:6 : 6 And there are different results, but the same God who produces all of them in everyone.
  • Col 1:16 : 16 for all things in heaven and on earth were created in him– all things, whether visible or invisible, whether thrones or dominions, whether principalities or powers– all things were created through him and for him.
  • Heb 1:3 : 3 The Son is the radiance of his glory and the representation of his essence, and he sustains all things by his powerful word, and so when he had accomplished cleansing for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
  • Gen 2:1-2 : 1 The heavens and the earth were completed with everything that was in them. 2 By the seventh day God finished the work that he had been doing, and he ceased on the seventh day all the work that he had been doing.
  • Ps 65:6 : 6 You created the mountains by your power, and demonstrated your strength.
  • Isa 40:26 : 26 Look up at the sky! Who created all these heavenly lights? He is the one who leads out their ranks; he calls them all by name. Because of his absolute power and awesome strength, not one of them is missing.
  • Matt 10:29 : 29 Aren’t two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will.

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  • John 5:18-21
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    18For 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.

    19So 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.

    20For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he does, and will show him greater deeds than these, so that you will be amazed.

    21For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes.

  • John 5:16
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    16Responding to Jewish Leaders Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him.

  • John 9:4
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    4We must perform the deeds of the one who sent me as long as it is daytime. Night is coming when no one can work.

  • John 10:35-38
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    35If those people to whom the word of God came were called‘gods’(and the scripture cannot be broken),

    36do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world,‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said,‘I am the Son of God’?

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

    38But if I do them, even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, so that you may come to know and understand that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.”

  • John 5:36-37
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    36“But I have a testimony greater than that from John. For the deeds that the Father has assigned me to complete– the deeds I am now doing– testify about me that the Father has sent me.

    37And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You people have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time,

  • John 7:21
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    21Jesus replied,“I performed one miracle and you are all amazed.

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

    31The Jewish leaders picked up rocks again to stone him to death.

    32Jesus said to them,“I have shown you many good deeds from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?”

    33The 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.”

  • 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 that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous deeds.

    11Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me, but if you do not believe me, believe because of the miraculous deeds themselves.

    12I tell you the solemn truth, the person who believes in me will perform the miraculous deeds that I am doing, and will perform greater deeds than these, because I am going to the Father.

  • John 8:38-39
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    38I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!”

    39They answered him,“Abraham is our father!” Jesus replied,“If you are Abraham’s children, you would be doing the deeds of Abraham.

  • John 10:25
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    25Jesus replied,“I told you and you do not believe. The deeds I do in my Father’s name testify about me.

  • John 6:28-30
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    28So then they said to him,“What must we do to accomplish the deeds God requires?”

    29Jesus replied,“This is the deed God requires– to believe in the one whom he sent.”

    30So they said to him,“Then what miraculous sign will you perform, so that we may see it 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
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    19Then they began asking him,“Who is your father?” Jesus answered,“You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me you would know my Father too.”

  • John 15:24
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    24If 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.

  • John 5:30
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    30I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.

  • John 8:54
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    54Jesus replied,“If I glorify myself, my glory is worthless. The one who glorifies me is my Father, about whom you people say,‘He is our 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 complete his work.

  • John 17:4-5
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    4I glorified you on earth by completing the work you gave me to do.

    5And now, Father, glorify me at your side with the glory I had with you before the world was created.

  • John 8:49
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    49Jesus answered,“I am not possessed by a demon, but I honor my Father– and yet you dishonor me.

  • John 8:41
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    41You people are doing the deeds of your father.”Then they said to Jesus,“We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself.”

  • John 5:9-11
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    9Immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his mat and started walking.(Now that day was a Sabbath.)

    10So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed,“It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat.”

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

  • Deut 5:13
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    13You are to work and do all your tasks in six days,

  • Mark 2:28
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    28For this reason the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”

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

    29And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do those things that please him.”

  • John 7:16
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    16So Jesus replied,“My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me.

  • Exod 20:9
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    9For six days you may labor and do all your work,

  • John 5:23
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    23so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

  • John 8:16
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    16But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate, because I am not alone when I judge, but I and the Father who sent me do so together.

  • John 10:17
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    17This is why the Father loves me– because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back 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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    6So Jesus replied,“My time has not yet arrived, but you are ready at any opportunity!