John 5:12

The Jewish leaders asked him, “Who is this man that said, ‘Pick up your swag, and walk?’”

Plain English Version

In The King James Version

Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?

In Context

11The man said, “But the man that made me better told me to. He said, ‘Pick up your swag, and walk.’ So I did.”

13But the man didn’t know who made him better. There were a lot of people in that place, and Jesus had already left.

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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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