Joh 5:9, 16, 18 | ESV | STEP | And at once the man was healed , and he took up his bed and walked . Now that day was the Sabbath .

a[See ver. 8 above]

John 5:9

9 ^aAnd at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked.

^bNow that day was the Sabbath.

John 5:16

16 And this was why the Jews ^cwere persecuting Jesus, ^dbecause he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

John 5:18

Jesus Is Equal with God

18 This was why the Jews ^ewere seeking all the more to kill him, ^fbecause not only was he ^gbreaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God ^hhis own Father, ⁱmaking himself equal with God.