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John 5:17

But Jesus answered them, “To this very day My Father is at His work, and I too am working.”

John 5:17 BSB

John 5:17 has 11 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 10 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to John 9:4 (16 votes) and John 14:10 (16 votes). 28 other verses point back to it. It links with 12 other books, from Genesis 1 to Hebrews 1.

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Which verses does John 5:17 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. John 9:416 votes

    While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.

  2. John 14:1016 votes

    Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I say to you, I do not speak on My own. Instead, it is the Father dwelling in Me, performing His works.

  3. 1 Corinthians 12:612 votes

    There are different ways of working, but the same God works all things in all people.

  4. Colossians 1:1612 votes

    For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him.

  5. Hebrews 1:38 votes

    The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

  6. Genesis 2:1–27 votes

    Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.

  7. Isaiah 40:266 votes

    Lift up your eyes on high: Who created all these? He leads forth the starry host by number; He calls each one by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.

  8. Acts 14:175 votes

    Yet He has not left Himself without testimony to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”

  9. Acts 17:285 votes

    ‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’

  10. Matthew 10:294 votes

    Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father.

  11. Psalm 65:63 votes

Which verses point to John 5:17?

The 10 strongest of 28.