John 5:16

English Standard Version

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

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Therefore, the Jews began persecuting Jesus because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

King James Version (1611)
And therefore did the Iewes persecute Iesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the Sabbath day.

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.

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

New Century Version
Because Jesus was doing this on the Sabbath day, some evil people began to persecute him.

Amplified Bible
For this reason the Jews began to persecute Jesus continually 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.

Legacy Standard Bible
And for this reason the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.

Berean Standard Bible
Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews began to persecute Him.

Contemporary English Version
They started making a lot of trouble for Jesus because he did things like this on the Sabbath.

Complete Jewish Bible
and on account of this, the Judeans began harassing Yeshua because he did these things on Shabbat.

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

Easy-to-Read Version
Jesus was doing all this on the Sabbath day. So these Jews began trying to make him stop.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And therefore the Iewes did persecute Iesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the Sabbath day.

George Lamsa Translation
And for this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus and wanted to kill him, because he was doing these things on the sabbath.

Good News Translation
So they began to persecute Jesus, because he had done this healing on a Sabbath.

Lexham English Bible
And on account of this the Jews began to persecute Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

Literal Translation
And because of this, the Jews persecuted Jesus and lusted to kill Him, because He did these things on a sabbath.

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

Bible in Basic English
And for this reason the Jews were turned against Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

Hebrew Names Version
For this cause the Yehudim persecuted Yeshua, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Shabbat.

International Standard Version
So the Jews[fn] began persecuting Jesus because he kept doing such things on the Sabbath.

Etheridge Translation
On account of this the Jihudoyee persecuted Jeshu, and sought to kill him, because these things he had done on the shabath.

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

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And therefore the Iewes dyd persecute Iesus, and sought [the meanes] to slea hym, because he hadde done these thynges on the Sabboth day.

English Revised Version
And for this cause did the Jews 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.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And therefore the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he had done these things on the sabbath.

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor the Jewis pursueden Jhesu, for he dide this thing in the sabat.

Update Bible Version
And for this cause the Jews persecuted 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.

New English Translation
Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him.

New King James Version
For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him, [fn] because He had done these things on the Sabbath.

New Living Translation
So the Jewish leaders began harassing Jesus for breaking the Sabbath rules.

New Life Bible
Because Jesus did these things on the Day of Rest, the Jews made it very hard for Him.

New Revised Standard
Therefore the Jews started persecuting Jesus, because he was doing such things on the sabbath.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, on this account, were the Jews persecuting Jesus, because, these things, he had been doing, on Sabbath.

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

Revised Standard Version
And this was why the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did this on the sabbath.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And therfore the Iewes dyd persecute Iesus and sought the meanes to slee him because he had done these thinges on the Saboth daye.

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.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Therfore dyd ye Iewes persecute Iesus, and sought to slaye him, because he had done this vpo ye Sabbath.

Mace New Testament (1729)
upon which occasion the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he did such things on the sabbath-day.

Simplified Cowboy Version
So the Jewish leaders started nit-picking Jesus about healing a man on the day of rest.

Contextual Overview

¹ After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ² Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. ³ In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be healed?" The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me." Jesus said to him, "Get up, take up your bed, and walk." And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed." But he answered them, "The man who healed me, that man said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and walk.' " They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk'?" Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place. Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, "See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you." The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him. And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. But Jesus answered them, "My Father is working until now, and I am working." This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God. So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise. For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. And greater works than these will he show him, so that you may marvel. For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will. For the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son, that all may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. "Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man. Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment. "I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me. If I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not true. There is another who bears witness about me, and I know that the testimony that he bears about me is true. You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth. Not that the testimony that I receive is from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved. He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. But the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father has sent me. And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen, and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe the one whom he has sent. You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, ⁴ yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life. I do not receive glory from people. But I know that you do not have the love of God within you. I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him. How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God? Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you: Moses, on whom you have set your hope. For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?" ⁵ One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. ⁶ When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be healed?" ⁷ The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me." ⁸ Jesus said to him, "Get up, take up your bed, and walk." ⁹ And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath. ¹⁰ So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

persecute: John 15:20, Acts 9:4, Acts 9:5

and sought: John 5:13, John 7:19, John 7:20, John 7:25, John 10:39, Matthew 12:13, Mark 3:6, Luke 6:11

Reciprocal: Exodus 35:2 - whosoever Matthew 12:2 - Behold Luke 6:2 - Why Luke 13:14 - with John 8:37 - but John 9:14 - General John 11:46 - General John 11:57 - had Hebrews 12:3 - contradiction

Gill's Notes on the 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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Persecuted Jesus - They opposed him; attempted to ruin his character; to destroy his popularity; and probably held him up before the people as a violator of the law of God. Instead of making inquiry whether he had not given proof that he was the Messiah, they “assumed” that he must be wrong, and ought to be punished. Thus every bigot and persecutor does in regard to those who differ from them.

To slay him - To put him to death. This they attempted to do because it was directed in the law of Moses, Exodus 31:15; Exodus 35:2. See Luke 6:7, Luke 6:11; Luke 13:14. We see here,

1. How full of enmity and how bloody was the purpose of the Jews, All that Jesus had done was to restore an infirm man to health - a thing which they would have done for their cattle Luke 6:7, and yet they sought. his life because he had done it for a sick “man.”

2. Men are often extremely envious because good is done by others, especially if it is not done according to the way of their denomination or party.

3. Here was an instance of the common feelings of a hypocrite. He often covers his enmity against the power of religion by great zeal for the form of it. He hates and persecutes those who do good, who seek the conversion of sinners, who love revivals of religion and the spread of the gospel, because it is not according to some matter of form which has been established, and on which he supposes the whole safety of the church to hang. There was nothing that Jesus was more opposed to than hypocrisy, and nothing that he set himself more against than those who suppose all goodness to consist in “forms,” and all piety in the “shibboleths” of a party.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 5:16. And sought to slay him — This clause is omitted by BCDL, some others, and several ancient versions. Griesbach has left it out of the text; and Professor White says, certissime delenda: but it does not appear to me that it should be omitted. However, it was true of the Jews, whether the words were originally in the evangelist or not. For what cause did these persons seek to destroy our Lord? Because he had healed a poor man, who had been diseased thirty-eight years, and ordered him to carry home the couch on which he lay! How implacable must their malice have been! The spirit of religious persecution has always been the most fell and dangerous of all on this side perdition. Every other disposition appears to have its moderator; but this is wholly abandoned to the guidance of Satan, and has for its objects the men who know the truth, and who live to the glory of their God, and for the benefit of mankind. How strange that such should ever be objects of malice and hatred! But the Satanic nature in fallen man is ever opposed to whatever comes from God.