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Selected Verse: John 5:10 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Joh 5:10 |
King James |
The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
The Jews--that is, those in authority. (See on 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 (Neh 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. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Not lawful - It was forbidden, they supposed, in the Old Testament. The Jews were very strenuous in the observation of the external duties of religion. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Cured (τεθεραπευμένῳ)
See on Mat 8:7; see on Luk 5:15; see on Act 17:25.
To carry (ἆραι)
Rev., more correctly, to take up. It is Jesus' own word in Joh 5:8. |
11 He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.
21 Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;
15 In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.
19 And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?
8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
15 But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.
7 And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him.