John 5:10
the Jews then said to him that hath been healed, 'It is a sabbath; it is not lawful to thee to take up the couch.'
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
11He answered them, 'He who made me whole — that one said to me, Take up thy couch, and be walking;'
Cross References
Exodus 31:12And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,
Isaiah 58:13If thou dost turn from the sabbath thy foot, Doing thine own pleasure on My holy day, And hast cried to the sabbath, 'A delight,' To the holy of Jehovah, 'Honoured,' And hast honoured it, without doing thine own ways, Without finding thine own pleasure, And speaking a word.
Jeremiah 17:27And if ye do not hearken unto me to sanctify the day of rest, And so as not to bear a burden, And to come in at the gates of Jerusalem on the day of rest, Then I have kindled a fire in its gates, And it hath consumed the high places of Jerusalem, And it is not quenched!'
Mark 2:24and the Pharisees said to him, 'Lo, why do they on the sabbaths that which is not lawful?'
Luke 6:2and certain of the Pharisees said to them, 'Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbaths?'
Luke 23:56and having turned back, they made ready spices and ointments, and on the sabbath, indeed, they rested, according to the command.
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 →