John 5:16

The Authority of the Son

16 So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him.

John 5:16 in Other Translations

16 And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.

16 And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

16 So the Jewish leaders began harassing Jesus for breaking the Sabbath rules.

16 That is why the Jews were out to get Jesus - because he did this kind of thing on the Sabbath.

16 And for this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath.

16 The Jews began to persecute Jesus because he kept healing people on the day of worship.

16 Therefore, the Jews began persecuting Jesus because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.

16 Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath day. So the Jews began to oppose him.

John 5:16 Meaning and Commentary

John 5:16

And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus
With their tongues, reproaching and reviling him, as a sabbath breaker, a destroyer of the law, and a sinful wicked man:

and sought to slay him;
either in a violent way, by setting the zealots, a sort of ruffians under the pretence of religion, upon him; or rather in a judicial way, summoning him before the sanhedrim, in order to condemn him to death for the breach of the sabbath, which by the law of Moses was punishable with death:

because he had done these things on the sabbath day;
because he had cured the man of his disease, under which he had laboured eight and thirty years, and had ordered him to take up his bed, and walk home with it on his back on the sabbath day. This drew upon him their resentment to such a degree, that they not only persecuted him with their tongues, but sought to take away his life. Nothing would satisfy them but his blood.

John 5:16 In-Context

14 Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.”

15 The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.

16 So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him.

17 In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.”

18 For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.