John 5:10
The Jews therefore said to the man who was cured, It is Sabbath. It is not permitted for thee to take up the bed.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
11He answered them, The man who made me well, that man said to me, Take up thy bed and walk.
Cross References
Exodus 31:12And LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Isaiah 58:13If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, [and] the holy of LORD honorable, and shall honor it, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, no
Jeremiah 17:27But if ye will not hearken to me to hallow the Sabbath day, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in the gates of it, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusa
Mark 2:24And the Pharisees said to him, Look, why are they doing what is not permitted on the Sabbath day?
Luke 6:2But some of the Pharisees said to them, Why do ye what is not permitted to do on the Sabbath day?
Luke 23:56And having returned, they prepared spices and ointments. And they indeed rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment.
Matthew Henry on John 5:2-17
The Cure at the Pool of Bethesda. 1 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. 3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. 4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of… Read the whole commentary →