John 5:10

Now it was the Sabbath. So the religious authorities said to the man who had been cured, “This is the Sabbath; you must not carry your mat.”

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In The King James Version

The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.

In Context

9The man was cured immediately, and took up his mat and began walking.

11“The man who cured me,” he answered, “said to me ‘Take up your mat and walk.’”

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Cross References

Mark 2:24“Look!” the Pharisees said to him, “why are they doing what is not allowed on the Sabbath?”

Luke 6:2“Why are you doing what it is not allowable to do on the Sabbath?” asked some of the Pharisees.

Luke 23:56and then went home, and prepared spices and perfumes. During the Sabbath they rested, as directed by 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 →

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