John 5:11

"He who cured me," he replied, "said to me, `Take up your mat and walk.'"

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.

In Context

10That day was a Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "It is the Sabbath: you must not carry your mat."

12"Who is it," they asked, "that said to you, `Take up your mat and walk'?"

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Cross References

Mark 2:9Which is easier? --to say to this paralytic, `Your sins are pardoned,' or to say, `Rise, take up your mat, and walk?'

John 9:16This led some of the Pharisees to say, "That man has not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." "How is it possible for a bad man to do such miracles?" argued others.

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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