John 5:9

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

Plain English Version

In The King James Version

And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.

In Context

8Jesus said to him, “Get up, pick up your swag, and walk.”

10So the Jewish leaders said to the man that got better, “Hey, you can’t carry your swag on our rest day. You are breaking the law.”

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Cross References

Mark 1:42And straight away, that man was better.

Mark 5:29And straight away, her bleeding stopped. She knew she was better.

Mark 10:52Jesus said to him, “You believe in me, so now you can see again. You can go home now.” Straight away, Bartimayus could see again, and he joined in with the other people and followed Jesus along that road.

John 5:10So the Jewish leaders said to the man that got better, “Hey, you can’t carry your swag on our rest day. You are breaking the law.”

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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