John 5:11 But he replied, "The man who made me well said to me, 'Pick up your mat and walk.' "

◄ John 5:11 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
But he replied, "The man who made me well said to me, 'Pick up your mat and walk.' "

English Standard Version
But he answered them, “The man who healed me, that man said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and walk.’”

New American Standard Bible
But he answered them, "He who made me well was the one who said to me, 'Pick up your pallet and walk.'"

King James Bible
He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He replied, "The man who made me well told me, Pick up your mat and walk.'""

International Standard Version
But he answered them, "The man who made me well told me, 'Pick up your mat and walk.'"

American Standard Version
But he answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He answered them: He that made me whole, he said to me, Take up thy bed, and walk.

Darby Bible Translation
He answered them, He that made me well, he said to me, Take up thy couch and walk.

Young's Literal Translation
He answered them, 'He who made me whole -- that one said to me, Take up thy couch, and be walking;'

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

5:10-16 Those eased of the punishment of sin, are in danger of returning to sin, when the terror and restraint are over, unless Divine grace dries up the fountain. The misery believers are made whole from, warns us to sin no more, having felt the smart of sin. This is the voice of every providence, Go, and sin no more. Christ saw it necessary to give this caution; for it is common for people, when sick, to promise much; when newly recovered, to perform only something; but after awhile to forget all. Christ spoke of the wrath to come, which is beyond compare worse than the many hours, nay, weeks and years of pain, some wicked men have to suffer in consequence of their unlawful indulgences. And if such afflictions are severe, how dreadful will be the everlasting punishment of the wicked!

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

10-16. The Jews—that is, those in authority. (See on [1781]Joh 1:19.)

it is not lawful to carry thy bed—a glorious testimony to the cure, as instantaneous and complete, from the lips of the most prejudiced! (And what a contrast does it, as all our Lord's miracles, present to the bungling miracles of the Church of Rome!) In ordinary circumstances, the rulers had the law on their side (Ne 13:15; Jer 17:21). But when the man referred them to "Him that had made him whole" (Joh 5:11) as his authority, the argument was resistless. Yet they ingeniously parried the thrust, asking him, not who had "made him whole"—that would have condemned themselves and defeated their purpose—but who had bidden him "take up his bed and walk," in other words, who had dared to order a breach of the sabbath? It is time we were looking after Him—thus hoping to shake the man's faith in his Healer.