Juan 5:16

Vida mediante el Hijo

16 Precisamente por esto los judíos perseguían a Jesús, pues hacía tales cosas en sábado.

Juan 5:16 Meaning and Commentary

John 5:16

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.

Juan 5:16 In-Context

14 Después de esto Jesús lo encontró en el templo y le dijo:—Mira, ya has quedado sano. No vuelvas a pecar, no sea que te ocurra algo peor.

15 El hombre se fue e informó a los judíos que Jesús era quien lo había sanado.

16 Precisamente por esto los judíos perseguían a Jesús, pues hacía tales cosas en sábado.

17 Pero Jesús les respondía:—Mi Padre aún hoy está trabajando, y yo también trabajo.

18 Así que los judíos redoblaban sus esfuerzos para matarlo, pues no solo quebrantaba el sábado sino que incluso llamaba a Dios su propio Padre, con lo que él mismo se hacía igual a Dios.