John 5:9
Immediately the man was healed. He picked up his mat and started walking. Now the day that this happened was the Sabbath.
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8“Stand up, pick up your mat, and start walking!” Jesus told him.
Cross References
Matthew 12:10A man was there with a crippled hand. “Does the law allow healing on the Sabbath?” they asked him, looking for a reason to accuse him.
Mark 1:42The leprosy left him immediately, and he was healed.
Mark 5:29The bleeding stopped immediately, and she felt her body healed from her disease.
Mark 10:52“You can go. Your trust in me has healed you.” Immediately Bartimaeus could see and he followed Jesus as he went on his way.
John 5:10So the Jews said to the man who'd been healed, “This is the Sabbath! It's against the law to carry a mat!”
John 7:23If you circumcise on the Sabbath to make sure that the law of Moses isn't broken, why are you angry with me for healing someone on the Sabbath?
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 →