John 5:11
He answered them, He that made me well, *he* said to me, Take up thy couch and walk.
Darby Translation
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
12They asked him [therefore], Who is the man who said to thee, Take up thy couch and walk?
Cross References
Mark 2:9Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, [Thy] sins are forgiven [thee]; or to say, Arise, and take up thy couch and walk?
John 9:16Some of the Pharisees therefore said, This man is not of God, for he does not keep the sabbath. Others said, How can a sinful man perform such signs? And there was a division 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 →