John 5:10
So the Jews said to the man who'd been healed, “This is the Sabbath! It's against the law to carry a mat!”
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11“The man who healed me told me to pick up my mat and start walking,” he replied.
Cross References
Exodus 31:12The Lord told Moses,
Isaiah 58:13If you make sure you don't break the Sabbath by doing whatever you please on my holy day, if you say the Sabbath brings you pleasure and the Lord's day is to be honored, and if you honor it by leaving aside your own ways, by not doing whatever you please, and by avoiding chatting about ordinary things,
Jeremiah 17:27But if you refuse to listen to me and keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will set its gates alight with a fire that can't be put out, and it will burn down Jerusalem's fortresses.
Mark 2:24The Pharisees asked Jesus, “Look, why are they doing what is not permitted on the Sabbath?”
Luke 6:2Some of the Pharisees questioned him, asking, “Why are you doing what is not permitted on the Sabbath?”
Luke 23:56They returned home and prepared spices and ointments. But on the Sabbath they rested, observing 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 →