John 5:17

World English Bible (2000)

But Jesus answered them, "My Father is still working, so I am working, too."

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  • John 14:10 : 10 Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.
  • John 9:4 : 4 I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.
  • Acts 14:17 : 17 Yet he didn't leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness."
  • 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 various kinds of workings, but the same God, who works all things in all.
  • Col 1:16 : 16 For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.
  • Heb 1:3 : 3 His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself made purification for our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
  • Gen 2:1-2 : 1 The heavens and the earth were finished, and all their vast array. 2 On the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
  • Ps 65:6 : 6 Who by his power forms the mountains, having armed yourself with strength;
  • Isa 40:26 : 26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, Not one is lacking.
  • Matt 10:29 : 29 "Aren't two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father's will,

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    18For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

    19Jesus therefore answered them, "Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.

    20For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel.

    21For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.

  • John 5:16
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    16For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.

  • John 9:4
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    4I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The 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 the Scripture can't be broken),

    36do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You blaspheme,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God?'

    37If I don't do the works of my Father, don't believe me.

    38But if I do them, though you don't believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father."

  • John 5:36-37
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    36But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.

    37The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.

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    30I and the Father are one."

    31Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him.

    32Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?"

    33The Jews answered him, "We don't stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God."

  • John 14:10-12
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    10Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.

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    12Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.

  • John 8:38-39
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    38I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father."

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  • John 6:28-30
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    28They said therefore to him, "What must we do, that we may work the works of God?"

    29Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent."

    30They said therefore to him, "What then do you do for a sign, that we may see, and believe you? What work do you do?

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  • John 8:19
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    19They said therefore to 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 hadn't done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn't have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.

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    4I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.

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    9Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked. Now it was the Sabbath on that day.

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    16Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

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    9You shall labor six days, and do all your work,

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