John 5:10

So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for yoʋ to pick up yoʋr mat.”

Text-Critical English NT

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

9Immediately the man was made well, so he picked up his mat and began to walk. Now that day was a Sabbath.

11He answered them, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up yoʋr mat and walk.’”

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Cross References

Mark 2:24So the Pharisees said to him, “Behold, why are they doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?”

Luke 6:2But some of the Pharisees said to them, “Why are you doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?”

Luke 23:56Then they returned and prepared spices and ointments. But they rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment.

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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