John 5:10
So the Jews said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath, and it is not lawful for thee to take up thy bed.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
11But he answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.
Cross References
Exodus 31:12And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Isaiah 58:13If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, and the holy of the LORD honourable; and shalt honour it, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
Jeremiah 17:27But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
Mark 2:24And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?
Luke 6:2But certain of the Pharisees said, Why do ye that which it is not lawful to do on the sabbath day?
Luke 23:56And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments. And 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 →