John 5:11

The NET Bible®

But he answered them, "The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.'"

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He replied, “The man who made me well told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’

King James Version (1611)
He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said vnto me, Take vp thy bed, and walke.

King James Version
He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, 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.'"

New Century Version
But he answered, "The man who made me well told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.' "

Amplified Bible
He answered them, "The Man who healed me and gave me back my strength was the One who said to me, 'Pick up your pallet and walk.'"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
But he answered them, "He who made me well was the one who said to me, 'Pick up your pallet and walk."'

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

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

Contemporary English Version
But he replied, "The man who healed me told me to pick up my mat and walk."

Complete Jewish Bible
But he answered them, "The man who healed me — he's the one who told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.'"

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

Easy-to-Read Version
But he answered, "The man who made me well told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.'"

Geneva Bible (1587)
He answered them, He yt made me whole, he said vnto me, Take vp thy bed, and walke.

George Lamsa Translation
He answered and said to them, He who had healed me, he told me, Take up your quilt-bed, and walk.

Good News Translation
He answered, "The man who made me well told me to pick up my mat and walk."

Lexham English Bible
But he answered them, "The one who made me well—that one said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk!'"

Literal Translation
He answered them, The One making me well, that One said to me, Lift up your cot 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.

Bible in Basic English
He said to them, But he who made me well, said to me, Take up your bed and go.

Hebrew Names Version
He answered them, "He who made me well, the same said to me, 'Take 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.'"

Etheridge Translation
But he answered and said to them, He who made me whole, he said to me, Take up thy bed, and walk.

Murdock Translation
But he answered, and said to them: He that made me whole, he said to me, Take up thy bed and walk.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
He aunswered them: He that made me whole, saide vnto me, take vp thy bedde and walke.

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

World English Bible
He answered them, "He who made me well, the same said to me, 'Take up your mat, and walk.'"

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
He answered, He that made me whole, he said to me, Take up thy bed and walk.

Weymouth's New Testament
"He who cured me," he replied, "said to me, `Take up your mat and walk.'"

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He answeride to hem, He that made me hool, seide to me, Take thi bed, and go.

Update Bible Version
But he answered them, He that made me whole, the same said to me, Take up your bed, and walk.

Webster's Bible Translation
He answered them, He that healed me, the same said to me, Take up thy bed, and walk.

New King James Version
He answered them, "He who made me well said to me, "Take up your bed and walk."'

New Living Translation
But he replied, "The man who healed me told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.'"

New Life Bible
He said to them, "The Man Who healed me said to me, ‘Pick up your bed and walk.'

New Revised Standard
But he answered them, "The man who made me well said to me, ‘Take up your mat and walk.'"

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
who, however, answered them - He that made me well, he, unto me, said - Take up thy couch, and be walking.

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

Revised Standard Version
But he answered them, "The man who healed me said to me, 'Take up your pallet, and walk.'"

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
He answered them: he that made me whole sayde vnto me: take vp thy beed and get the hence.

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

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He answered them: He that made me whole, sayde vnto me: Take vp thy bed, and go yi waye.

Mace New Testament (1729)
he answered them, he that cured me said to me, take up your bed and walk.

THE MESSAGE
But he told them, "The man who made me well told me to. He said, ‘Take your bedroll and start walking.'"

Simplified Cowboy Version
The man shot back, "That fellow who healed me told me to, so that's what I'm going to do."

Contextual Overview

¹ After this there was a Jewish feast, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ² Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool called Bethzatha in Aramaic, which has five covered walkways. ³ A great number of sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed people were lying in these walkways. Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized that the man had been disabled a long time already, he said to him, "Do you want to become well?" The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get into the water, someone else goes down there before me." Jesus said to him, "Stand up! Pick up your mat and walk." Immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his mat and started walking. (Now that day was a Sabbath.) So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat." But he answered them, "The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.'" They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk'?" But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped out, since there was a crowd in that place. After this Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "Look, you have become well. Don't sin any more, lest anything worse happen to you." The man went away and informed the Jewish leaders that Jesus was the one who had made him well. Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him. So he told them, "My Father is working until now, and I too am working." For this reason the Jewish leaders were trying even harder to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God. So Jesus answered them, "I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise. For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he does, and will show him greater deeds than these, so that you will be amazed. For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes. Furthermore, the Father does not judge anyone, but has assigned all judgment to the Son, so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. "I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but has crossed over from death to life. I tell you the solemn truth, a time is coming—and is now here—when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For just as the Father has life in himself, thus he has granted the Son to have life in himself, and he has granted the Son authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man. "Do not be amazed at this, because a time is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and will come out—the ones who have done what is good to the resurrection resulting in life, and the ones who have done what is evil to the resurrection resulting in condemnation. I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me. "If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true. There is another who testifies about me, and I know the testimony he testifies about me is true. You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth. (I do not accept human testimony, but I say this so that you may be saved.) He was a lamp that was burning and shining, and you wanted to rejoice greatly for a short time in his light. "But I have a testimony greater than that from John. For the deeds that the Father has assigned me to complete—the deeds I am now doing—testify about me that the Father has sent me. And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You people have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time, nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent. You study the scriptures thoroughly because you think in them you possess eternal life, and it is these same scriptures that testify about me, ⁴ but you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life. "I do not accept praise from people, but I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you. I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him. How can you believe, if you accept praise from one another and don't seek the praise that comes from the only God? "Do not suppose that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope. If you believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me. But if you do not believe what Moses wrote, how will you believe my words?" ⁵ Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years. ⁶ When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized that the man had been disabled a long time already, he said to him, "Do you want to become well?" ⁷ The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get into the water, someone else goes down there before me." ⁸ Jesus said to him, "Stand up! Pick up your mat and walk." ⁹ Immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his mat and started walking. (Now that day was a Sabbath.) ¹⁰ So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat."

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

He answered them,.... That is, the impotent man, who was now made whole, replied to the Jews:

he that made me whole, the same said unto me, take up thy bed and walk; intimating, that he that had such divine power, as to make him whole, had power to dispense with the sabbath, and such an action on it; and that his word was warrant and authority sufficient, to support him in what he did; for he that had wrought this cure for him, he concluded must be from God; was at least a great prophet, and to be hearkened to and obeyed, in one thing as well as another.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He that made me whole - The man reasoned correctly. If Jesus had power to work so signal a miracle, he had a right to explain the law. If he had conferred so great a favor on him, he had a right to expect obedience; and we may learn that the mercy of God in pardoning our sins, or in bestowing any signal blessing, imposes the obligation to obey him. We should yield obedience to him according to what we Know to be his will, whatever may be the opinions of men, or whatever interpretation they may put on the law of God. our business is a simple, hearty, child-like obedience, let the men of the world say or think of us as they choose.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 5:11. He that made me whole, c.] The poor man reasoned conclusively:- He who could work such a miracle must be at least the best of men: now a good man will neither do evil himself, nor command others to do it: but he who cured me ordered me to carry my bed therefore, there can be no evil in it.