John 5:10
So the Judeans said to him who was cured, “It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat.”
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
9Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked. Now that day was a Sabbath.
11He answered them, “He who made me well said to me, ‘Take up your mat and walk.’”
Cross References
Exodus 31:12The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Isaiah 58:13“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy of the LORD honorable, and honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,
Jeremiah 17:27But if you will not listen to me to make the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem. It will not be quenched.”’”
Mark 2:24The Pharisees said to him, “Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?”
Luke 6:2But some of the Pharisees said to them, “Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?”
Luke 23:56They returned and prepared spices and ointments. 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 →