John 5:8

Jesus said to him, “Rise, pick up yoʋr mat, and walk.”

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7The disabled man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I am going, another goes down before me.”

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

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Cross References

Matthew 9:6But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—then he said to the paralytic— “Rise, pick up yoʋr bed, and go to yoʋr house.”

Luke 5:24But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the paralyzed man— “I say to yoʋ, rise, pick up yoʋr mat, and go to yoʋr house.”

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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