John 5:18

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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.

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  • John 10:33 : 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.”
  • John 8:58 : 58 Jesus said to them,“I tell you the solemn truth, before Abraham came into existence, I am!”
  • John 10:30 : 30 The Father and I are one.”
  • John 5:23 : 23 so 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 19:7 : 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!”
  • Phil 2:6 : 6 who though he existed in the form of God did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped,
  • Rev 22:1 : 1 Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life– water as clear as crystal– pouring out from the throne of God and of the Lamb,
  • John 5:16 : 16 Responding to Jewish Leaders Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him.
  • John 7:1 : 1 The Feast of Shelters After this Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He stayed out of Judea because the Jewish leaders wanted to kill him.
  • Zech 13:7 : 7 “Awake, sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is my associate,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. Strike the shepherd that the flock may be scattered; I will turn my hand against the insignificant ones.
  • John 7:19 : 19 Hasn’t Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill me?”
  • John 7:22-23 : 22 However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision(not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child on the Sabbath. 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?
  • John 8:54 : 54 Jesus 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 14:23 : 23 Jesus replied,“If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him.
  • Rev 22:3 : 3 And there will no longer be any curse, and the throne of God and the Lamb will be in the city. His servants will worship him,
  • Rev 21:22-23 : 22 Now I saw no temple in the city, because the Lord God– the All-Powerful– and the Lamb are its temple. 23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God lights it up, and its lamp is the Lamb.
  • John 14:9 : 9 Jesus replied,“Have I been with you for so long, and you have not known me, Philip? The person who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say,‘Show us the Father’?
  • Matt 12:5 : 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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  • John 5:15-17
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    15The man went away and informed the Jewish leaders that Jesus was the one who had made him well.

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

    17So he told them,“My Father is working until now, and I too am working.”

  • John 10:30-37
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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.”

    34Jesus answered,“Is it not written in your law,‘I said, you are gods’?

    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.

  • John 5:19-21
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    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 19:7
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    7The 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!”

  • Luke 6:5
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    5Then he said to them,“The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”

  • John 8:52-54
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    52Then the Judeans responded,“Now we know you’re possessed by a demon! Both Abraham and the prophets died, and yet you say,‘If anyone obeys my teaching, he will never experience death.’

    53You aren’t greater than our father Abraham who died, are you? And the prophets died too! Who do you claim to be?”

    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.’

  • Mark 2:27-28
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    27Then he said to them,“The Sabbath was made for people, not people for the Sabbath.

    28For this reason the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”

  • John 5:9-10
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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.”

  • 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 8:40-41
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    40But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

    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 8:19-20
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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.”

    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.)

  • John 5:36
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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.

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

  • John 8:38
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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!”

  • John 7:19-20
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    19Hasn’t Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill me?”

    20The crowd answered,“You’re possessed by a demon! Who is trying to kill you?”

  • John 17:1
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    1Jesus Prays for the Father to Glorify Him When Jesus had finished saying these things, he looked upward to heaven and said,“Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, so that your Son may glorify you–

  • John 8:48-49
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    48The Judeans replied,“Aren’t we correct in saying that you are a Samaritan and are possessed by a demon?”

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

  • 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 5:26-27
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    26For just as the Father has life in himself, thus he has granted the Son to have life in himself,

    27and he has granted the Son authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man.

  • John 10:19
    69%

    19Another sharp division took place among the Jewish people because of these words.

  • Luke 5:21
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    21Then the experts in the law and the Pharisees began to think to themselves,“Who is this man who is uttering blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

  • John 8:28
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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.

  • John 6:52
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    52Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began to argue with one another,“How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

  • John 9:16
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    16Then 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.

  • Matt 15:3-4
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    3He answered them,“And why do you disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

    4For God said,‘Honor your father and mother’ and‘Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’

  • John 7:1
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    1The Feast of Shelters After this Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He stayed out of Judea because the Jewish leaders wanted to kill him.

  • John 9:22
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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.

  • Luke 6:2
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    2But some of the Pharisees said,“Why are you doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?”

  • John 10:39
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    39Then they attempted again to seize him, but he escaped their clutches.