John 5:10
The Jews therefore said to the healed [man], It is sabbath, it is not permitted thee to take up thy couch.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
9And immediately the man became well, and took up his couch and walked: and on that day was sabbath.
11He answered them, He that made me well, *he* said to me, Take up thy couch and walk.
Cross References
Exodus 31:12And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Isaiah 58:13If thou turn back thy foot from the sabbath, [from] doing thy pleasure on my holy day, and call the sabbath a delight, the holy [day] of Jehovah, honourable; and thou honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking [idle] 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 through 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 to him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath what is not lawful?
Luke 6:2But some of the Pharisees said to them, Why do ye what is not lawful to do on the sabbath?
Luke 23:56And having returned they prepared aromatic spices and ointments, and remained quiet on the sabbath, 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 →