John 5:8-32 NIV

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 5:9

And immediately the man was made whole ,.... As soon as ever the words were spoken by Christ, such power went with them, as restored the man to perfect health; and he finding himself to be quite well, rose up directly: and took up his bed and walked ; which may be expressive of a sinner's rising from the bed of sin, and taking up the cross, or carrying the body of sin and death with him; and walking by faith in Christ, as he has received him: and on the same day was the sabbath ;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 5:10

The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured ,.... When they saw him, either at the place, or as he walked through the streets, with his bed on his back: it is the sabbath day : do not you know it? surely you forget yourself, or you would never be guilty of such an action as this; it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed . It was forbid by the law, to carry any burden on the sabbath day; see Nehemiah 13:15 ; for "carrying out and bringing in anything, from one place to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 5:11

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... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 5:12

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... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 5:13

And he that was healed, wist not who he was ,.... He had never seen, and perhaps had never heard of Christ before, and so knew him not; and besides, Christ gave him no opportunity of conversing with him, or so much as to ask him who he was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away ; had slipped away, as soon as ever he had wrought the miracle: a multitude being in that place ; or "from the multitude that were in that place"; not that he hid himself among them, and there remained... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 5:14

Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple ,.... Perhaps on the same day; for as soon as he had been at home, and laid down his bed, it is very likely he went directly to the temple, there to show himself, attend the worship of the place, and return thanks to God for the great mercy bestowed on him: and said unto him, behold thou art made whole ; cured of the disease that had attended him so many years; and a wonderful cure it was; well may a "behold" be prefixed; though this is here not... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 5:15

The man departed ,.... From Christ, and from the temple, not through displeasure, or as resenting what was said to him, but as highly delighted that he had found his kind benefactor and physician; and went either to Bethesda, where the miracle was wrought, and where a multitude of people were, and where he might expect to find some of the persons that had questioned him about carrying his bed, and who it was that bid him do it; or rather to the sanhedrim; see John 5:33 compared with John... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 5:16

And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus ,.... With their tongues, reproaching and reviling him, as a sabbath breaker, a destroyer of the law, and a sinful wicked man: and sought to slay him ; either in a violent way, by setting the zealots, a sort of ruffians under the pretence of religion, upon him; or rather in a judicial way, summoning him before the sanhedrim, in order to condemn him to death for the breach of the sabbath, which by the law of Moses was punishable with death: ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 5:17

But Jesus answered them ,.... Being convened before them, and charged by them with the violation of the sabbath, he vindicated himself in the following manner, saying; my Father worketh hitherto : he who is my Father, not by creation, or adoption, but by nature, though he ended all his work on the seventh day, and rested from what he had done; yet he did not cease from working at all, but has continued to work ever since, on sabbath days, as well as on other days; in upholding and... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 5:18

Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him ,.... They were the more desirous to take away his life, and were more bent and resolute upon it, and studied all ways and means how to bring it about; because he had not only broken the sabbath ; as they imagined; for he had not really broken it: and if they had known what that means, that God will have mercy, and not sacrifice, they would have been convinced that he had not broke it by this act of mercy to a poor distressed object: but... read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 5:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 5:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 5:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 5:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 5:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 5:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 5:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 5:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 5:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 5:18

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