the Week of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28
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John 5:8
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Then Jesus said, "Stand up! Pick up your mat and walk."
And Iesus sayde vnto him: ryse take vp thy beed and walke.
Yeshua said to him, "Arise, take up your mat, and walk."
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Jesus said to him, "Get up, pick up your pallet and walk."
Then Jesus said, "Stand up. Pick up your mat and walk."
Jesus says to him, Arise, take up your bed, and walk.
Jesus saith to him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
Jesus said to him, "Get up, take up your bed, and walk."
Jesus said to him, "Arise, take up your mat, and walk."
Jesus saith to him, Rise, take up thy bed and walk.
"Rise," said Jesus, "take up your mat and walk."
Jhesus seith to hym, Rise vp, take thi bed, and go.
Jesus saith unto him, Arise, take up thy bed, and walk.
Then Jesus told him, "Get up, pick up your mat, and walk."
Jesus told him, "Pick up your mat and walk!"
Jesus said to him, "Get up; pick up your pallet and walk."
Jesus saith unto him, Arise, take up thy bed, and walk.
Jesus said to him, Get up, take your bed and go.
Yeshua said to him, "Get up, pick up your mat and walk!"
Jesus says to him, Arise, take up thy couch and walk.
Jeshu saith to him, Arise, take up thy bed, and walk.
Jesus said to him: Arise, take up thy bed, and walk.
Iesus sayth vnto him, Rise, take vp thy bed, and walke.
Jesus told him, "Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk!"
Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your bed and walk."
Jesus said to him, "Stand up, take your mat and walk."
Iesus said vnto him, Rise: take vp thy bed, and walke.
Jesus said to him, Rise, take up your quiltbed, and walk.
Jesus saith unto him - Rise! take up thy couch, and be walking.
Jesus saith to him: Arise, take up thy bed and walk.
Jesus said to him, "Rise, take up your pallet, and walk."
Iesus saith vnto him: Ryse, take vp thy bedde, and walke.
Jesus said to him, "Get up, pick up your mat, and walk."
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Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk!"
Jesus saith to him, `Rise, take up thy couch, and be walking;'
Iesus sayde vnto him: Aryse, take vp thy bed, and go thy waye.
rise, said Jesus to him, take up thy bed, and go your way.
Jesus said, "Get up, take your bedroll, start walking." The man was healed on the spot. He picked up his bedroll and walked off. That day happened to be the Sabbath. The Jews stopped the healed man and said, "It's the Sabbath. You can't carry your bedroll around. It's against the rules." But he told them, "The man who made me well told me to. He said, ‘Take your bedroll and start walking.'" They asked, "Who gave you the order to take it up and start walking?" But the healed man didn't know, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd. A little later Jesus found him in the Temple and said, "You look wonderful! You're well! Don't return to a sinning life or something worse might happen." The man went back and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. That is why the Jews were out to get Jesus—because he did this kind of thing on the Sabbath. But Jesus defended himself. "My Father is working straight through, even on the Sabbath. So am I." That really set them off. The Jews were now not only out to expose him; they were out to kill him. Not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was calling God his own Father, putting himself on a level with God. So Jesus explained himself at length. "I'm telling you this straight. The Son can't independently do a thing, only what he sees the Father doing. What the Father does, the Son does. The Father loves the Son and includes him in everything he is doing. "But you haven't seen the half of it yet, for in the same way that the Father raises the dead and creates life, so does the Son. The Son gives life to anyone he chooses. Neither he nor the Father shuts anyone out. The Father handed all authority to judge over to the Son so that the Son will be honored equally with the Father. Anyone who dishonors the Son, dishonors the Father, for it was the Father's decision to put the Son in the place of honor. "It's urgent that you listen carefully to this: Anyone here who believes what I am saying right now and aligns himself with the Father, who has in fact put me in charge, has at this very moment the real, lasting life and is no longer condemned to be an outsider. This person has taken a giant step from the world of the dead to the world of the living. "It's urgent that you get this right: The time has arrived—I mean right now!—when dead men and women will hear the voice of the Son of God and, hearing, will come alive. Just as the Father has life in himself, he has conferred on the Son life in himself. And he has given him the authority, simply because he is the Son of Man, to decide and carry out matters of Judgment. "Don't act so surprised at all this. The time is coming when everyone dead and buried will hear his voice. Those who have lived the right way will walk out into a resurrection Life; those who have lived the wrong way, into a resurrection Judgment. "I can't do a solitary thing on my own: I listen, then I decide. You can trust my decision because I'm not out to get my own way but only to carry out orders. If I were simply speaking on my own account, it would be an empty, self-serving witness. But an independent witness confirms me, the most reliable Witness of all. Furthermore, you all saw and heard John, and he gave expert and reliable testimony about me, didn't he? "But my purpose is not to get your vote, and not to appeal to mere human testimony. I'm speaking to you this way so that you will be saved. John was a torch, blazing and bright, and you were glad enough to dance for an hour or so in his bright light. But the witness that really confirms me far exceeds John's witness. It's the work the Father gave me to complete. These very tasks, as I go about completing them, confirm that the Father, in fact, sent me. The Father who sent me, confirmed me. And you missed it. You never heard his voice, you never saw his appearance. There is nothing left in your memory of his Message because you do not take his Messenger seriously. "You have your heads in your Bibles constantly because you think you'll find eternal life there. But you miss the forest for the trees. These Scriptures are all about me! And here I am, standing right before you, and you aren't willing to receive from me the life you say you want. "I'm not interested in crowd approval. And do you know why? Because I know you and your crowds. I know that love, especially God's love, is not on your working agenda. I came with the authority of my Father, and you either dismiss me or avoid me. If another came, acting self-important, you would welcome him with open arms. How do you expect to get anywhere with God when you spend all your time jockeying for position with each other, ranking your rivals and ignoring God? "But don't think I'm going to accuse you before my Father. Moses, in whom you put so much stock, is your accuser. If you believed, really believed, what Moses said, you would believe me. He wrote of me. If you won't take seriously what he wrote, how can I expect you to take seriously what I speak?"
Jesus said to him, "Stand up! Pick up your mat and walk."
Jesus said to him, "Rise, take up your bed and walk."
Jesus said to him, "Get up, take your bedroll and walk out of here."
Jesus said to him, "Get up, pick up your pallet and walk."
Jesus *said to him, "Get up, pick up your mat and walk."
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Matthew 9:6, Mark 2:11, Luke 5:24, Acts 9:34
Reciprocal: Psalms 68:28 - commanded Song of Solomon 4:16 - Let Isaiah 35:6 - shall the lame Matthew 9:5 - Arise Mark 3:5 - Stretch Luke 6:10 - Stretch John 7:23 - I have made Acts 3:8 - he Acts 14:10 - Stand
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Jesus saith to him, rise,.... From thy bed, or couch, on which he lay in one of the porches: and
take up thy bed and walk; these words were spoken by the same power, as those to Lazarus, which called him out of his grave; as appears from the effect they had upon the man, who was in himself impotent, weak, and helpless.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Rise, take up ... - Jesus not only restored him to health, but he gave evidence to those around him that this was a real miracle. and that he was really healed. For almost 40 years he had been afflicted. He was not even able to walk. Jesus commanded him not only to âwalk,â but to take up his âbedâ also, and carry that as proof that he was truly made whole. In regard to this we may observe,
1. That it was a remarkable command. The poor man had been sick for a long time, and it does not appear that he expected to be healed except by being put into the waters. Yet Jesus, when he gives a commandment, can give strength to obey it.
2. It is our business to obey the commands of Jesus, however feeble we feel ourselves to be. His grace will be sufficient for us, and his burden will be light.
3. The weak and helpless sinner should put forth his efforts in obedience to the command of Jesus. Never was a sinner more helpless than was this man. If God gave him strength to do his will, so he can all others; and the plea that we can do nothing could have been urged with far more propriety by this man than it can be by any impenitent sinner.
4. This narrative should not be abused. It should not be supposed as intended to teach that a sinner should delay repentance, as if âwaiting for God.â The narrative neither teaches nor implies âany such thing.â It is a simple record of a fact in regard to a man who had no power to heal himself, and who was under no obligation to heal himself. There is no reference in the narrative to the difficulties of a sinner - no intimation that it was intended to refer to his condition; and to make this example an excuse for delay, or an argument for waiting, is to abuse and pervert the Bible. Seldom is more mischief done than by attempting to draw from the Bible what it was not intended to teach, and by an effort to make that convey spiritual instruction which God has not declared designed for that purpose.
Thy bed - Thy couch; or the mattress or clothes on which he lay.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse John 5:8. Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. — Jesus speaks here as God. He speaks in no name but his own, and with an authority which belongs to God alone. And what is the consequence? The man became whole immediately; and this sudden restoration to health and strength was an incontestable proof of the omnipotence of Christ. It has been remarked, that our Lord, after having performed a miracle, was accustomed to connect some circumstance with it, which attested its truth. After the miracle of the five loaves, he ordered the fragments to be collected, which were more in quantity than the loaves themselves, though several thousands had been fed. When he changed the water into wine, he ordered some to be taken first to the steward of the feast, that he might taste and bear testimony to its genuineness and excellency. When he cured the lepers, he commanded them to show themselves to the priests, whose business it was to judge of the cure. So here, he judged it necessary, after having cured this infirm man, to order him not only to arise, but to take up his bed, and walk, which sufficiently attested the miracle which he had wrought. God's work is ever known by its excellence and good effects.
The bed of a poor Hindoo is seldom any thing besides a single mat, or a cloth as thick as a bed-quilt. Men carrying such beds may be seen daily on the highways.
