John 5:11
The man replied to them, “The man who healed me, he himself said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk!’”
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.
In Context
12They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick it up and walk!’?”
Cross References
Mark 2:9It is not risky [RHQ] for someone to tell the man who is paralyzed, ‘Your sins are forgiven { I forgive your sins},’ because no one can prove that it has happened. But no one would say to him, ‘Get up, pick up your stretcher, and then walk away’, unless he really had the power to heal him, because people can easily see whether it happens or not.
John 9:16So some of the Pharisees said, “Since this man Jesus disobeys our rules about working ◄on the Sabbath/on the Jewish rest day►, he is not from God.” But others said, “If he was a sinner, ◄he could certainly not do such miracles!/how could he do such miracles?► [RHQ]” So they were divided.
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 →