John 5:8

Jesus said to him, “Get up, pick up your swag, and walk.”

Plain English Version

In The King James Version

Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.

In Context

7The man said, “Yes, sir, I do, but I haven’t got a friend to help me get into the water after it moves. Somebody else always gets in first.”

9Straight away, the man was better. He got up, picked up his swag, and started walking around. This happened on the Jewish rest day.

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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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