4/11/09 John 5

In John chapter 5, Jesus performs the miracle of healing the man to be able to walk.  The important thing is that Jesus performed this specific miracle on Sabbath day.  When I was taking History of Roman empire, Jesus was shown up as one of topic in our class.  For our essay, we were asked to define the reasons that Jews hated Jesus and they tried to kill Jesus.  As I was researching in that class, first reason they brought up to kill Jesus was the fact that Jesus performed miracles on Sabbath day.  Traditionally, Jews weren't suppose to work on Sabbath day because God has told us to rest on Sabbath day.  Therefore, these people persecuted Jesus because he performed miracles on Sabbath day.  Later on Jesus asks Pharasees that is it better to not heal the people and let them die or is it better to save their lives on Sabbath day.   Which clearly explains that which was more important.  As I was reading this passage, I was just amazed at the fact that actually persecuted Jesus with this specific concept.  It is perfectly clear that they wanted to get anything out of Jesus inorder for them to kill Jesus.