Doing Good on the Sabbath

John 05:16-17, “For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. But [Jesus] answered them, “My Father is working still, and I am working.””

Philo Allegorical Interpretation I (6), “Therefore the expression, "he caused to rest," is very appropriately employed here [Genesis 02:02-03], not "he rested." For he makes things to rest which appear to be producing others, but which in reality do not affect anything; but he himself never ceases from creating. On which account Moses says, "He caused to rest the things which he had begun." For all the things that are made by our arts when completed stand still and remain; but all those which are accomplished by the knowledge of God are moved at subsequent times.

Based on the cross reference index in the Comprehensive New Testament and Philo for Christians