“Work” in the Gospel of John
Both the noun, ergon, and the verb, ergazomai
28 total occurrences in the following in the following 23 verses:
John 4:34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work.
John 5:17 (2) But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, and I also am working.”
John 5:20 The Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing; and he will show him greater works than these, so that you will be astonished.
John 5:36 (2) But I have a testimony greater than John’s. The works that the Father has given me to complete, the very works that I am doing, testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me.
John 6:27 Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For it is on him that God the Father has set his seal.”
John 6:28 Then they said to him, “What must we do to perform the works of God?”
John 6:29 Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
John 6:30 So they said to him, “What sign are you going to give us then, so that we may see it and believe you? What work are you performing?
John 7:3 So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea so that your disciples also may see the works you are doing;
John 7:7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its works are evil.
John 7:21 Jesus answered them, “I performed one work, and all of you are astonished.
John 9:3 Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God’s works might be revealed in him.
John 9:4 (3) We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming when no one can work.
John 10:25 Jesus answered, “I have told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name testify to me;
John 10:32 Jesus replied, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these are you going to stone me?”
John 10:33 The Jews answered, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you, but for blasphemy, because you, though only a human being, are making yourself God.”
John 10:37 If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me.
John 10:38 But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”
John 14:10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own; but the Father who dwells in me does his works.
John 14:11 Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; but if you do not, then believe me because of the works themselves.
John 14:12 (2) Very truly, I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than these, because I am going to the Father.
John 15:24 If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not have sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.
John 17:4 I glorified you on earth by finishing the work that you gave me to do.
