John 5:11
He answered them, “The one who healed me, he said to me, ‘Take up your stretcher and walk.’”
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.
In Context
12Therefore, they questioned him, “Who is that man, who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk?’”
Cross References
Mark 2:9Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Rise up, take up your stretcher, and walk?’
John 9:16And so certain Pharisees said: “This man, who does not keep the Sabbath, is not from God.” But others said, “How could a sinful man accomplish these signs?” And there was a schism among them.
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 →