John 5:10
So the Jews said to him who was healed, “It is the Sabbath and you are not permitted to carry your mat.”
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In Context
9Immediately the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was a Sabbath.
11He replied, “He who made me healthy said to me, 'Pick up your mat and walk.'”
Cross References
Exodus 31:12Then Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,
Isaiah 58:13Suppose that you turn back your feet from traveling on the Sabbath day, and from doing your own pleasure on my holy day. 1 Suppose that you call the Sabbath a delight, and that you call the matters of Yahweh holy and honored. 1 Suppose that you honor the Sabbath by leaving your own business, and by not finding your own pleasure and by not speaking your own words. 1
Jeremiah 17:27But if you do not listen to me—to set apart the Sabbath day and to not carry heavy loads and to not enter the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day—then I will light a fire in its gates, and it will consume the fortresses of Jerusalem, and it cannot be put out.”
Mark 2:24The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing something that is not lawful on the Sabbath day?”
Luke 6:2But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing something that is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?”
Luke 23:56They returned, and prepared spices and ointments. Then on the Sabbath they rested 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 →