Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?
Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk? They ingeniously parry the man's 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? ''Tis time we were looking after him'-thus hoping to shake the man's faith in his Healer.