John 5:12

Literal Standard Version

they questioned him, then, "Who is the Man who is saying to you, Take up your bed and be walking?"

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Who is this man who told you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk’

King James Version (1611)
Then asked they him, What man is that which said vnto thee, Take vp thy bed, and walke?

King James Version
Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?

English Standard Version
They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk'?"

New American Standard Bible
They asked him, "Who is the Man who said to you, 'Pick it up and walk'?"

New Century Version
Then they asked him, "Who is the man who told you to pick up your mat and walk?"

Amplified Bible
They asked him, "Who is the Man who told you, 'Pick up your pallet and walk'?"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Pick up your pallet and walk'?"

Legacy Standard Bible
They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk'?"

Berean Standard Bible
"Who is this man who told you to pick it up and walk?" they asked.

Contemporary English Version
They asked him, "Who is this man that told you to pick up your mat and walk?"

Complete Jewish Bible
They asked him, "Who is the man who told you to pick it up and walk?"

Darby Translation
They asked him [therefore], Who is the man who said to thee, Take up thy couch and walk?

Easy-to-Read Version
They asked him, "Who is the man who told you to pick up your mat and walk?"

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then asked they him, What man is that which said vnto thee, Take vp thy bed and walke?

George Lamsa Translation
And they asked him, Who is this man who said to you, Take up your quilt-bed, and walk?

Good News Translation
They asked him, "Who is the man who told you to do this?"

Lexham English Bible
So they asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk?'"

Literal Translation
Then they asked him, Who is the man who told you, Lift up your cot and walk?

American Standard Version
They asked him, Who is the man that said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?

Bible in Basic English
Then they put to him the question: Who is the man who said to you, Take it up and go?

Hebrew Names Version
Then they asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take up your mat, and walk'?"

International Standard Version
They asked him, "Who is the man who told you, 'Pick it up and walk'?"

Etheridge Translation
And they said to him, What man is this who told thee to take up thy bed, and walk ?

Murdock Translation
And they asked him: Who is the man that said to thee, Take up thy bed and walk?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then asked they hym: What man is that which sayde vnto thee, take vp thy bedde, and walke?

English Revised Version
They asked him, Who is the man that said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?

World English Bible
Then they asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take up your mat, and walk'?"

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Then asked they him, Who is the man that said to thee, Take up thy bed and walk?

Weymouth's New Testament
"Who is it," they asked, "that said to you, `Take up your mat and walk'?"

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor thei axiden him, What man `is that, that seide to thee, Take vp thi bed, and go?

Update Bible Version
They asked him, Who is the man that said to you, Take up [your bed], and walk?

Webster's Bible Translation
Then they asked him, What man is that who said to thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?

New English Translation
They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk'?"

New King James Version
Then they asked him, "Who is the Man who said to you, "Take up your bed and walk'?"

New Living Translation
"Who said such a thing as that?" they demanded.

New Life Bible
Then the Jews asked him, "What man said to you, ‘Pick up your bed and walk' ?"

New Revised Standard
They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take it up and walk'?"

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
They questioned him - Who is the man that said unto thee, Take up thy couch , and be walking?

Douay-Rheims Bible
They asked him therefore: Who is that man who said to thee: Take up thy bed and walk?

Revised Standard Version
They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take up your pallet, and walk'?"

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Then axed they him: what man is that which sayde vnto the take vp thy beed and walke.

Young's Literal Translation
they questioned him, then, `Who is the man who is saying to thee, Take up thy couch and be walking?'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then axed they him: What man is that, which sayde vnto the: Take vp thy bed, and go yi waye?

Mace New Testament (1729)
then they asked him, who is he that said to you take up your bed and walk?

THE MESSAGE
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.

Simplified Cowboy Version
"What fellow told you that?" they shouted.

Contextual Overview

¹After these things there was a celebration of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, ²and there is in Jerusalem by the sheep-[gate] a pool that is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches, ³in these were lying a great multitude of the ailing, blind, lame, withered, [[waiting for the moving of the water, ⁴for a messenger at a set time was going down in the pool, and was troubling the water, the first then having gone in after the troubling of the water, became whole of whatever sickness he was held.]] ⁵And there was a certain man there being in ailment thirty-eight years, ⁶him Jesus having seen lying, and having known that he is already a long time, He says to him, "Do you wish to become whole?" ⁷The ailing man answered Him, "Lord, I have no man, that, when the water may be troubled, he may put me into the pool, and while I am coming, another goes down before me." ⁸Jesus says to him, "Rise, take up your pallet, and be walking"; ⁹and immediately the man became whole, and he took up his pallet, and was walking, and it was a Sabbath on that day, ¹⁰the Jews then said to him that has been healed, "It is a Sabbath; it is not lawful to you to take up the pallet."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

What: Judges 6:29, 1 Samuel 14:38, Matthew 21:23, Romans 10:2

Reciprocal: Luke 5:24 - power John 5:15 - which

Cross-References

Luke 3:37
the [son] of Methuselah, the [son] of Enoch, the [son] of Jared, the [son] of Mahalaleel,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then asked they him,.... Suspecting who had made him whole, and gave him this order:

what man is that which said unto thee, take up thy bed and walk? they take no notice of the cure, being unwilling to give any glory to Christ, and still less to spread it; but chose rather that it should be obscured, hid, and unobserved; but they laid hold on that, which they thought might be improved to his reproach and scandal; and they call him a man, as supposing him to be a mere man, and a wicked man too, for giving orders to transgress a tradition of the elders, though no mere man could work such a cure as this was. And so the Jews since, though they cannot find fault with the cure, which they put an "if" upon, yet are highly displeased with the order, to take up his bed and carry it:

"if (say they a) he wrought a cure, lo, that is good, but why did he bid him take up his bed?''

the answer may be, to show that he was cured.

a Vet. Nizzachon, p. 207.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

What man is he ... - In this verse there is a remarkable instance of the “perverseness” of men, of their want of candor, and of the manner in which they often look at a subject. Instead of looking at the miracle, and at the man’s statement of the manner in which he was healed, they look only at what they thought to be a violation of the law. They assumed it as certain that nothing could make his conduct, in carrying his bed on the Sabbath day, proper; and they meditated vengeance, not only on the man who was carrying his bed, but on him, also, who had told him to do it. Thus men often assume that a certain course or opinion is proper, and when anyone differs from them they look only at the difference, but not at the reasons for it. One great source of dispute among men is that they look only at the points in which they differ, but are unwilling to listen to the reasons why others do not believe as they do. It is always enough to condemn one in the eyes of a bigot that he differs from “him,” and he looks upon him who holds a different opinion, as the Jews did at this man, “as certainly wrong;” and such a bigot looks at the reasons why others differ from him just as the Jews did at the reason why this man bore his bed on the Sabbath - as not worth regarding or hearing, or as if they could not possibly be right.