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16 So the Jewish leaders[a] began persecuting Jesus,[b] because he kept doing such things on the Sabbath.

17 But Jesus[c] answered them, “My Father has been working until now, and I, too, am working.” 18 So the Jewish leaders[d] were trying all the harder to kill him, because he was not only breaking the Sabbath but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.

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Footnotes

  1. John 5:16 I.e. Judean leaders; lit. the Jews
  2. John 5:16 Other MSS add and were seeking to kill him
  3. John 5:17 Other mss. read he
  4. John 5:18 I.e. Judean leaders; lit. the Jews

16 And kai this is why dia the ho Jews Ioudaios were persecuting diōkō · ho Jesus Iēsous, because hoti he was doing poieō these houtos things on en the Sabbath sabbaton. 17 But de Jesus ho answered apokrinomai them autos, · ho My egō Father patēr has been working ergazomai until heōs now arti, and I kagō also am working ergazomai.” 18 This was why dia the ho Jews Ioudaios were seeking zēteō all the more mallon to kill apokteinō him autos, because hoti he not ou only monon used to break lyō the ho Sabbath sabbaton, but alla he legō also kai was calling legō God theos his own idios Father patēr, · ho thus making poieō himself heautou equal isos with ho God theos.

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