John 5:12

Then they put to him the question: Who is the man who said to you, Take it up and go?

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?

In Context

11He said to them, But he who made me well, said to me, Take up your bed and go.

13Now he who had been made well had no knowledge who it was, Jesus having gone away because of the number of people who were in that place.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 14:38And Saul said, Come near, all you chiefs of the people, and let us get word from God and see in whom is this sin today.

Romans 10:2For I give witness of them that they have a strong desire for God, but not with knowledge.

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 →

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