Giovanni 5:16

16 E per questo i Giudei perseguitavano Gesù e cercavan d’ucciderlo; perché facea quelle cose di sabato.

Giovanni 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.

Giovanni 5:16 In-Context

14 Di poi Gesù lo trovò nel tempio, e gli disse: Ecco, tu sei guarito; non peccar più, che non t’accada di peggio.

15 Quell’uomo se ne andò, e disse ai Giudei che Gesù era quel che l’avea risanato.

16 E per questo i Giudei perseguitavano Gesù e cercavan d’ucciderlo; perché facea quelle cose di sabato.

17 Gesù rispose loro: Il Padre mio opera fino ad ora, ed anche io opero.

18 Perciò dunque i Giudei più che mai cercavan d’ucciderlo; perché non soltanto violava il sabato, ma chiamava Dio suo Padre, facendosi uguale a Dio.