John 5:18

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“Because of this, the Jews tried all the harder to kill Him. Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.”

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BSBPD

“Because of this, the Jews tried all the harder to kill Him. Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Therefore 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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“For this cause therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only brake the sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“because of this, then, were the Jews seeking the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the sabbath, but he also called God his own Father, making himself equal to God.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo John 5:18 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Zechariah 13:7Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd,against the man who is My Companion,declares the LORD of Hosts.Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered,and I will turn My hand against the little ones.
  2. Matthew 12:5Or haven’t you read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and yet are innocent?
  3. John 5:16Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews began to persecute Him.
  4. John 5:23so 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.
  5. John 7:1After this, Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He did not want to travel in Judea, because the Jews there were trying to kill Him.
  6. John 7:19Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. Why are you trying to kill Me?”
  7. John 7:22But because Moses gave you circumcision, you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath (not that it is from Moses, but from the patriarchs.)
  8. John 8:54Jesus answered, “If I glorify Myself, My glory means nothing. The One who glorifies Me is My Father, of whom you say ‘He is our God.’
  9. John 8:58“Truly, truly, I tell you,” Jesus declared, “before Abraham was born, I am!”
  10. John 10:30I and the Father are one.”
  11. John 10:33“We are not stoning You for any good work,” said the Jews, “but for blasphemy, because You, who are a man, declare Yourself to be God.”
  12. John 14:9Jesus replied, “Philip, I have been with you all this time, and still you do not know Me? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
  13. John 14:23Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
  14. John 19:7“We have a law,” answered the Jews, “and according to that law He must die, because He declared Himself to be the Son of God.”
  15. Philippians 2:6Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
  16. Revelation 21:22But I saw no temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
  17. Revelation 22:1Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb
  18. Revelation 22:3No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be within the city, and His servants will worship Him.

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