John 5:8

Jesus saith to him, Rise up, take thy bed, and go. (Jesus said to him, Get up, pick up thy bed, and go.)

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7The sick man answered to him, Lord, I have no man, (so) that when the water is moved [or (it) is troubled], to put me into the cistern (or into the pool); for while I come, another goeth down before me.

9And anon the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and went forth. And it was sabbath in that day. (And at once the man was healed, and picked up his bed, and went forth. And that day was the Sabbath.)

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Cross References

Matthew 9:6But (so) that ye know that man’s Son hath power to forgive sins in (or on the) earth, then he said to the sick man in (the) palsy [or then he said to the man sick in (the) palsy], Rise up; take thy bed, and go into thine house.

Luke 5:24But that ye know, that man’s Son hath power in earth to forgive sins, he said to the sick man in palsy, (or But so that ye know, that man’s Son hath power on the earth to forgive sins, he said to the man sick with palsy), I say to thee, rise up, take thy bed, and go into thine 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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