John 5:11

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - John 5:9-11

John 5:9-11. 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 strong, so able to help himself! What a new world was he in, in an instant! Reader, nothing is too hard for Christ to do! And took up his bed, and walked Finding himself whole, he did not object against his Deliverer’s command, though contrary to the precepts of the doctors. He rose up... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - John 5:1-29

IN JERUSALEM AGAIN46. Healing at Bethesda and its outcome (John 5:1-29)Jesus came from Galilee to Jerusalem for a Jewish religious festival. While there he visited a pool where many blind and crippled people hoped to find healing (John 5:1-5). One of the men asked Jesus for help, not to heal him (for he did not know who Jesus was) but to assist him into the pool. Jesus responded by healing him instantly (John 5:6-9). As the healing took place on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders were anxious to... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - John 5:11

the same = that one there. Greek. ekeinos, emph. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - John 5:11

But he answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up, thy bed and walk.There is a sharp distinction between the question of the priests who spoke only of the man's taking up his bed, but saying nothing of his being healed, and this answer of the healed man which confronted them dramatically with the wonder itself, namely, that he, a cripple for thirty-eight years, had been endowed with the power to do such a thing. With that clear understanding which belongs to all... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - John 5:11

John 5:11. 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 must have been both a prophet, and a worker of miracles." Instead of the same said unto me, it would be more emphatical, if it was rendered agreeable to the original, even he said. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - John 5:10-18

2. The antagonism of the Jewish authorities 5:10-18More than once Jesus used His Sabbath activities to make the Jews consider who He was (cf. Matthew 12:1-14; Mark 2:23 to Mark 3:6; Luke 13:10-17; Luke 14:1-6). Here He wanted them to realize that He had the right to work on the Sabbath as His Father did. This is the first open hostility to Jesus that John recorded. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - John 5:11-13

The healed man passed the responsibility for his disobeying the rabbis’ rule off by blaming Jesus. This was no way to express gratitude for what Jesus had done for him (cf. John 5:15). He probably feared for his life. The Jewish leaders wanted to know who had dared to contradict the accepted meaning of the fourth commandment. In their eyes He was a worse offender than the man who had carried his pallet.Significantly, they did not show any interest in the man’s well condition. It should have... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - John 5:1-47

Bethesda. Christ and the Sabbath1-47. 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 effects of sin, and the power of the Saviour to deal with the most hopeless cases. This poor man in his youth had shattered his nervous system by a life of sensual indulgence (John 5:14), and had lain for thirty-eight years a hopeless paralytic (John 5:5). This being an extreme case, the usual order of... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - John 5:11

(11) 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. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - John 5:1-47

Bethesda , the House of Mercy John 5:2-3 I. I ask you to look, first, at that sad, sick crowd. There was gathered a 'great multitude of impotent folk, blind, halt, withered'. That is a parable of humanity, looked at from the highest point of view, and considered in the deepest reality of their condition. The world is a sad world; but that is not the deepest thought about it. (1) Men are sinners, and therefore they are sorrowful. (2) The disease is universal. (3) This disease is unconscious.... read more

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