John 5:10

So those of Yehudah were saying to the one having been granted refu'ah (healing), It is Shabbos, so it is asur (prohibited), it is chillul Shabbos (desecration of Shabbat) for you to carry your mat. + 5:10 Neh 13:15-22; Jer 17:21

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

9And immediately the man received his refu'ah (healing) and took his mat and was walking around. And that day was Shabbos.

11But the man in reply said to them, The one having given me refu'ah, that one said to me, Take up your mat and walk!

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Cross References

Exodus 31:12And Hashem spoke unto Moshe, saying,

Isaiah 58:13If thou turn away thy regel on account of Shabbos, 1 from doing thy chefetz on My Yom Kodesh; 1 and call Shabbos an Oneg (Delight), 1 the Kedosh Hashem (Holy Day of Hashem ), “honored”; 1 and if thou shalt honor it, not doing thine darkhim 1 nor finding thine own chefetz, nor speaking [worldly] words: 1

Jeremiah 17:27But if ye will not pay heed unto Me to keep the day of Shabbos holy, and not to bear a massa (burden), when entering in at the She'arim of Yerushalayim on the day of Shabbos; then will I kindle an eish in the she'arim thereof, and it shall devour the fortresses of Yerushalayim, and it shall not be quenched.

Mark 2:24And the Perushim said to him, Look, why are they engaging in what is not mutar (permissible) in the Torah on Shabbos?

Luke 6:2Now some of the Perushim said, Why are you doing what is asur (impermissible) on Shabbos?

Luke 23:56And having returned, they prepared spices and ointments. And on Shabbos they rested according to the mitzvah (commandment). + 23:56 Ex 12:16; 20:10

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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