“ But Jesus answered them,My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. ”
My Father - God. Worketh hitherto - Worketh “until now,” or until this time. God has not ceased to work on the Sabbath. He makes the sun to rise; He rolls the stars; He causes the grass, the...
(3) But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. (3) The work of God was never the breach of the sabbath, and the works of Christ are the works of the Father, both because they a...
My Father . See note on John 2:16 . worketh . Compare John 9:4 , and see App-176. hitherto until now . referring to the O.T. Dispensation. Now Jehovah was speaking "by His Son "( Hebrews 1:2 )...
17. My Father worketh hitherto. We must see what kind of defense Christ employs. He does not reply that the Law about keeping the Sabbath was temporary, and that it ought now to be abolished...
DISCOURSE: 1625 CHRIST’S EQUALITY WITH THE FATHER John 5:17-18 . Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only...
But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. My Father worked hitherto, and I work - Or, As my Father worketh until now, etc., καθως being understood. God created the world in six...
My Father worketh hitherto,— Jesus began his defence with shewing the rulers the unreasonableness of their displeasurewith him, because he had restored the infirm man to health on the sabbath-day....
But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. The "I" here is emphatic х kagoo ( G2504 )] - q.d., 'The...
Bethesda. Christ and the Sabbath 1-47. A miracle at the Pool of Bethesda on the Sabbath Day, and a controversy arising therefrom. This miracle may be regarded as a parable illustrating the deadly...
My Father worketh hitherto (or, up to this moment ) . — They charge Him with breaking the law of God. His answer to this charge is that His action was the result of His Sonship and unity with tha...
Chapter 13 JESUS LIFE-GIVER AND JUDGE. “The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus which had made him whole. And for this cause did the Jews persecute Jesus, because He did these thin...
Sabbath Work That Pleases the Father John 5:10-18 In the foregoing incident our Lord not only healed the sufferer after thirty-eight years of deferred hope, but did so on the Sabbath, and bade...
It was at this time that the conflict between Christ and His enemies, which culminated in His Cross began. A miracle wrought on the Sabbath gave rise to this first outbreak. Throughout this chapter w...
The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus which had made him whole. (16) And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbat...
But Jesus answered them ,.... Being convened before them, and charged by them with the violation of the sabbath, he vindicated himself in the following manner, saying; my Father worketh hitherto :...
But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. Ver. 17. My Father worketh ] Yet without labour or lassitude, in conserving the whole creature. This he doth every day, and yet br...
Jesus answered “By the Jews , who in the preceding verses are said to have persecuted Jesus, we are to understand the rulers, as appears from John 5:33 , where Jesus, speaking to the persons who...
AGAIN IN JERUSALEM: THE POOL OF BETHESDA (vs.1-15) Once more we find the Lord Jesus visiting Jerusalem, and as in Chapter 2:13 the feast is called "the Jews' Passover" rather than the Passover of...
Christ's Discourse with the Jews; All Judgment Committed to Christ; The Christian Charter. 17 But Jesus answered them, My Father...
We read of no objection they made to Christ, as to what he had done, only that they persecuted him, which they might do without speaking to him: but it should seem by what we read in this verse, that...
The Healing of the Disabled Man at the Pool ( John 5:1-18 ). When John recounts an incident in the life of Jesus we must always ask what it is intended to illustrate, for he always has a purpose i...
EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES “Up to the present time our Lord has offered Himself to typical representatives of the whole Jewish race at Jerusalem, in Judæa, in Samaria, and in Galilee, in such...
John 5:17 I do not think there is a better characteristic of the more earnest thinking of these days than its profound reverence for faithful work; its profound sense that if a man have found his...
John 5:1 . After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. For he had respect to the Law. As long as the Law lasted, Christ observed it. Oh, that we were as careful to o...
John 5:2 . Now there is at Jerusalem a pool, called Bethesda, which signifies a house of mercy, beneficence, or alms. The pool was situate at too great a distance from the temple to be a place for...
After this there was a feast of the Jews The Pool of Bethesda, a type of favoured localities in a religious community in which the highest miraculous aid has not yet appeared The miraculous aid...
EXPOSITION Here commences the second division of the Gospel ( John 5:1 ) II. THE CONFLICT WITH THE CHOSEN PEOPLE IN JERUSALEM , GALILEE , AND JERUSALEM , TO THE DEATH...
But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
1 Corinthians 12:6 ; Acts 14:17 ; Acts 17:28 ; Colossians 1:16 ; Genesis 2:1 ; Genesis 2:2 ; Hebrews 1:3 ; Isaiah 40:26 ; John 14:10 ; John 9:4 ; Matthew 10:29 ; Psalms 65:6
My Father worketh until now, and I work — From the creation till now he hath been working without intermission. I do likewise. This is the proposition which is explained John 5:19-30 , confirmed a...