John 5:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

John 5:16 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 10:39
Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,
Acts 9:4-5
And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? …
Luke 6:11
And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.
John 7:25
Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?
John 7:19-20
Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me? …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-16)

This miraculous cure is not recorded by any other of the evangelists, who confine themselves mostly to the miracles wrought in Galilee, but John relates those wrought at Jerusalem. Concerning this observe, I. The time when this cure was wrought: it was at a feast of the Jews, that is, the passover, for that was the most celebrated feast. Christ, though residing in Galilee, yet went up to Jerusalem…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

10-16. The Jews--that is, those in authority. (See on Joh 1:19.) it is not lawful to carry thy bed--a glorious testimony to the cure, as instantaneous and complete, from the lips of the most prejudiced! (And what a contrast does it, as all our Lord’s miracles, present to the bungling miracles of the Church of Rome!) In ordinary circumstances, the rulers had the law on their side (Ne 13:15; Jr 17:2…