John 5:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me,Take up thy bed, and walk. ”

• John 5:11 - Albert 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...

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• John 5:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  John 5:9 b - John 5:15 . The Conflict with the Authorities. With the man himself the Jews raise the question of bearing burdens on the Sabbath ( cf. Jeremiah 17:21 ). The man's ignorance of...

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• John 5:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  the same . that one there. Greek. ekeinos, emph.

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• John 5:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk. He that made me whole, etc. - The poor man reasoned conclusively: - He who could work such a miracle must be...

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• John 5:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  He that made me whole, &c.— "He that with a word restored my strength in an instant, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed and walk; and his injunctions certainly could not be sinful, as he...

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• John 5:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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

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• John 5:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Bethesda. Christ and the Sabbath 1-47. A miracle at the Pool of Bethesda on the Sabbath Day, and a controversy arising therefrom. This miracle may be regarded as a parable illustrating the deadly...

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• John 5:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  He that made me whole. — The man bases the use of his power upon the will of Him who had given it. That has been the one divine voice he has heard, and it cannot be wrong for him to obey it.

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• John 5:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 12 SABBATH CURE AT BETHESDA. “After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in Hebr...

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• John 5:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Sabbath Work That Pleases the Father John 5:10-18 In the foregoing incident our Lord not only healed the sufferer after thirty-eight years of deferred hope, but did so on the Sabbath, and bade...

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• John 5:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  It was at this time that the conflict between Christ and His enemies, which culminated in His Cross began. A miracle wrought on the Sabbath gave rise to this first outbreak. Throughout this chapter w...

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• John 5:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep-market, a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue, Bethesda, having five porches. (3) In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, wither...

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• John 5:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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...

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• John 5:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk. Ver. 11. He that made me whole, &c. ] So, it seems, Christ had healed him, in part, on the inside al...

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• John 5:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And immediately the man was made whole A divine power going along with the command of Christ. What a joyful surprise was this to the poor cripple, to find himself, all of a sudden, so easy, so stro...

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• John 5:11 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  AGAIN IN JERUSALEM: THE POOL OF BETHESDA (vs.1-15) Once more we find the Lord Jesus visiting Jerusalem, and as in Chapter 2:13 the feast is called "the Jews' Passover" rather than the Passover of...

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• John 5:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Cure at the Pool of Bethesda.       1 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.   2 Now there is at J...

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• John 5:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  He makes them as good an answer as could well be imagined; the sum of which was, he believed that he that had thus healed him was a prophet, and so did what he did by a Divine authority, which it was...

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• John 5:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Healing of the Disabled Man at the Pool ( John 5:1-18 ). When John recounts an incident in the life of Jesus we must always ask what it is intended to illustrate, for he always has a purpose i...

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• John 5:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES “Up to the present time our Lord has offered Himself to typical representatives of the whole Jewish race at Jerusalem, in Judæa, in Samaria, and in Galilee, in such...

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• John 5:11 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  John 5:11 The authority for our life I. The principle contained in these words of the healed man is a grand and far-reaching principle. When truly interpreted, it applies to the whole life of eve...

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• John 5:11 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  John 5:1 . After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. For he had respect to the Law. As long as the Law lasted, Christ observed it. Oh, that we were as careful to o...

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• John 5:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  John 5:2 . Now there is at Jerusalem a pool, called Bethesda, which signifies a house of mercy, beneficence, or alms. The pool was situate at too great a distance from the temple to be a place for...

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• John 5:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

  After this there was a feast of the Jews The Pool of Bethesda, a type of favoured localities in a religious community in which the highest miraculous aid has not yet appeared The miraculous aid...

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• John 5:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Here commences the second division of the Gospel ( John 5:1 ) II. THE CONFLICT WITH THE CHOSEN PEOPLE IN JERUSALEM , GALILEE , AND JERUSALEM , TO THE DEATH...

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• John 5:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The objections of the Jews:

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• John 5:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  John 9:16 ; Mark 2:9-11

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