John 5:11

He answered them, 'He who made me whole — that one said to me, Take up thy couch, and be walking;'

Young's Literal Translation

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

10the Jews then said to him that hath been healed, 'It is a sabbath; it is not lawful to thee to take up the couch.'

12they questioned him, then, 'Who is the man who is saying to thee, Take up thy couch and be walking?'

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Cross References

Mark 2:9which is easier, to say to the paralytic, The sins have been forgiven to thee? or to say, Rise, and take up thy couch, and walk?

John 9:16Of the Pharisees, therefore, certain said, 'This man is not from God, because the sabbath he doth not keep;' others said, 'How is a man — a sinful one — able to do such signs?' and there was a division among them.

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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