John 5:10
Good News Translation
so the Jewish authorities told the man who had been healed, "This is a Sabbath, and it is against our Law for you to carry your mat."

New Revised Standard Version
So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, “It is the sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your mat.”

Contemporary English Version
When the Jewish leaders saw the man carrying his mat, they said to him, "This is the Sabbath! No one is allowed to carry a mat on the Sabbath."

New American Bible
So the Jews said to the man who was cured, “It is the sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry your mat.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Jews therefore said to him that was healed: It is the sabbath. It is not lawful for thee to take up thy bed.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The Jews therefore said to him that was healed: It is the sabbath. It is not lawful for thee to take up thy bed.

it is not.

Exodus 20:8-11 Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day. . . .

Exodus 31:12-17 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: . . .

Nehemiah 13:15-21 In those days I saw in Juda some treading the presses on the sabbath, and carrying sheaves, and lading asses with wine, and grapes, and figs, and all manner of burthens, and bringing them into Jerusalem on the sabbath day. And I charged them that they should sell on a day on which it was lawful to sell. . . .

Isaiah 58:13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy own will in my holy day, and call the sabbath delightful, and the holy of the Lord glorious, and glorify him, while thou dost not thy own ways, and thy own will is not found, to speak a word:

Jeremiah 17:21,27 Thus saith the Lord: Take heed to your souls, and carry no burdens on the sabbath day: and bring them not in by the gates of Jerusalem. . . .

Matthew 12:2 And the Pharisees seeing them, said to him: Behold thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days.

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Mark 2:24 And the Pharisees said to him: Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?

Mark 3:4 And he saith to them: Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? To save life, or to destroy? But they held their peace.

Luke 6:2 And some of the Pharisees said to them: Why do you that which is not lawful on the sabbath days?

Luke 13:14 And the ruler of the synagogue being angry that Jesus had healed on the sabbath answering, said to the multitude: Six days there are wherein you ought to work. In them therefore come and be healed: and not on the sabbath day.

Luke 23:56 And returning, they prepared spices and ointments: and on the sabbath day they rested, according to the commandment.

Context
The Pool of Bethesda
9And immediately the man was made whole: and he took up his bed and walked. And it was the sabbath that day. 10The Jews therefore said to him that was healed: It is the sabbath. It is not lawful for thee to take up thy bed. 11He answered them: He that made me whole, he said to me: Take up thy bed and walk.…
Cross References
Nehemiah 13:19
And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem were at rest on the sabbath day, I spoke: and they shut the gates, and I commanded that they should not open them till after the sabbath: and I set some of my servants at the gates, that none should bring in burthens on the sabbath day.

Jeremiah 17:21
Thus saith the Lord: Take heed to your souls, and carry no burdens on the sabbath day: and bring them not in by the gates of Jerusalem.

Matthew 12:2
And the Pharisees seeing them, said to him: Behold thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days.

Matthew 12:10
And behold there was a man who had a withered hand, and they asked him, saying: Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.

Luke 6:2
And some of the Pharisees said to them: Why do you that which is not lawful on the sabbath days?

John 1:19
And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and Levites to him, to ask him: Who art thou?

John 5:11
He answered them: He that made me whole, he said to me: Take up thy bed and walk.

John 5:15
The man went his way and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him whole.

John 5:16
Therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath.

John 7:23
If a man receive circumcision on the sabbath day, that the law of Moses may not be broken: are you angry at me, because I have healed the whole man on the sabbath day?

John 9:16
Some therefore of the Pharisees said: This man is not of God, who keepeth not the sabbath. But others said: How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.

John 5:9
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