John 5:16
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New International Version (©2011)
So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him.

New Living Translation (©2007)
So the Jewish leaders began harassing Jesus for breaking the Sabbath rules.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
For this reason the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Therefore, the Jews began persecuting Jesus because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.

International Standard Version (©2012)
So the Jewish leaders began persecuting Jesus, because he kept doing such things on the Sabbath.

NET Bible (©2006)
Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
And because of this, the Jews were persecuting Yeshua and were seeking to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The Jews began to persecute Jesus because he kept healing people on the day of worship.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.

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

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath.

Darby Bible Translation
And for this the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill him, because he had done these things on sabbath.

English Revised Version
And for this cause did the Jews persecute Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath.

Webster's Bible Translation
And therefore the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath.

Weymouth New Testament
and on this account the Jews began to persecute Jesus--because He did these things on the Sabbath.

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

Young's Literal Translation
and because of this were the Jews persecuting Jesus, and seeking to kill him, because these things he was doing on a sabbath.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

5:10-16 Those eased of the punishment of sin, are in danger of returning to sin, when the terror and restraint are over, unless Divine grace dries up the fountain. The misery believers are made whole from, warns us to sin no more, having felt the smart of sin. This is the voice of every providence, Go, and sin no more. Christ saw it necessary to give this caution; for it is common for people, when sick, to promise much; when newly recovered, to perform only something; but after awhile to forget all. Christ spoke of the wrath to come, which is beyond compare worse than the many hours, nay, weeks and years of pain, some wicked men have to suffer in consequence of their unlawful indulgences. And if such afflictions are severe, how dreadful will be the everlasting punishment of the wicked!

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

16. because he had done these things on the sabbath day—What to these hypocritical religionists was the doing of the most glorious and beneficent miracles, compared with the atrocity of doing them on the sabbath day! Having given them this handle, on purpose to raise the first public controversy with them, and thus open a fitting opportunity of laying His claims before them, He rises at once to the whole height of them, in a statement which for grandeur and terseness exceeds almost anything that ever afterwards fell from Him, at least to His enemies.

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The Father and the Son
16And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day. 17But Jesus answered them, My Father works till now, and I work. 18Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God. …

John 1:19 Now this was John's testimony when the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him who he was.
John 5:10 and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat."
John 5:15 The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.
John 5:17 In his defense Jesus said to them, "My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working."
John 5:18 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.
John 7:21 Jesus said to them, "I did one miracle, and you are all amazed.