John 5:18

World English Bible (2000)

For 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.

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  • John 10:33 : 33 The Jews answered him, "We don't stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God."
  • John 8:58 : 58 Jesus said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM."
  • John 10:30 : 30 I and the Father are one."
  • John 5:23 : 23 that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn't honor the Son doesn't honor the Father who sent him.
  • John 19:7 : 7 The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God."
  • Phil 2:6 : 6 who, existing in the form of God, didn't consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,
  • Rev 22:1 : 1 He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,
  • John 5:16 : 16 For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.
  • John 7:1 : 1 After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn't walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
  • Zech 13:7 : 7 "Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me," says Yahweh of Armies. "Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.
  • John 7:19 : 19 Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"
  • John 7:22-23 : 22 Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy. 23 If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man completely healthy on the Sabbath?
  • John 8:54 : 54 Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.
  • John 14:23 : 23 Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
  • Rev 22:3 : 3 There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants serve him.
  • Rev 21:22-23 : 22 I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb, are its temple. 23 The city has no need for the sun, neither of the moon, to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.
  • John 14:9 : 9 Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, 'Show us the Father?'
  • Matt 12:5 : 5 Or have you not read in the law, that on the Sabbath day, the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are guiltless?

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  • John 5:15-17
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    15 The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

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

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

  • John 10:30-37
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    30 I and the Father are one."

    31 Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him.

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

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

    34 Jesus answered them, "Isn't it written in your law, 'I said, you are gods?'

    35 If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can't be broken),

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

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

  • John 5:19-21
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    19 Jesus 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.

    20 For 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.

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

  • John 19:7
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    7 The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God."

  • Luke 6:5
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    5 He said to them, "The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath."

  • John 8:52-54
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    52 Then the Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and you say, 'If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.'

    53 Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?"

    54 Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.

  • Mark 2:27-28
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    27 He said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

    28 Therefore the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath."

  • John 5:9-10
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    9 Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked. Now it was the Sabbath on that day.

    10 So the Jews said to him who was cured, "It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat."

  • John 5:23
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    23 that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn't honor the Son doesn't honor the Father who sent him.

  • John 8:40-41
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    40 But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God. Abraham didn't do this.

    41 You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."

  • John 8:19-20
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    19 They 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."

    20 Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

  • John 5:36
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    36 But 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.

  • Matt 12:8
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    8 For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath."

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

  • John 7:19-20
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    19 Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"

    20 The multitude answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?"

  • John 17:1
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    1 Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;

  • John 8:48-49
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    48 Then the Jews answered him, "Don't we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?"

    49 Jesus answered, "I don't have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.

  • John 15:24
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    24 If 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.

  • John 5:26-27
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    26 For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.

    27 He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man.

  • John 10:19
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    19 Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words.

  • Luke 5:21
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    21 The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, "Who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?"

  • John 8:28
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    28 Jesus therefore said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.

  • John 6:52
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    52 The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

  • John 9:16
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    16 Some therefore of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, because he doesn't keep the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" There was division among them.

  • Matt 15:3-4
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    3 He answered them, "Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

    4 For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'

  • John 7:1
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    1 After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn't walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

  • John 9:22
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    22 His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.

  • Luke 6:2
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    2 But some of the Pharisees said to them, "Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?"

  • John 10:39
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    39 They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.