John Chapter 5 verse 9 Holy Bible
And straightway the man was made whole, and took up his bed and walked. Now it was the sabbath on that day.
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And the man became well straight away, and took up his bed and went. Now that day was the Sabbath.
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And immediately the man became well, and took up his couch and walked: and on that day was sabbath.
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And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.
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Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked. Now it was the Sabbath on that day.
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and immediately the man became whole, and he took up his couch, and was walking, and it was a sabbath on that day,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 9a. - And immediately the man became whole (well, sound in health), and took up his bed, and walked. This act of obedience was an act of faith, as in every other miracle upon paralyzed nerves and frames. The imagery of the sign explains the rationale of faith. The impotent man, the paralytic, and the man with withered hand, were severally called by Christ to do that which without Divine aid seemed and was impossible. The spiritual quickening of the mind was communicated to the ordinary physical volition, and the bare act was a method by which the palsied sufferer took hold of God's strength. Faith always lays hold thus of power to do the impossible. The words and the result are similar to those adopted on the cure of the paralytic. This is another instance of the identity of the Christ of John and of the synoptists. The various efforts of Strauss, Baur, and Weiss to identify this miracle with that wrought on the paralytic is, however, in defiance of every condition of time, place, character, and consequences. The energy of faith and love which led the Galilaean sufferer to secure the services of four stalwart friends, not only to carry him, but to make strenuous efforts to bring him into the presence of Jesus, contrasts powerfully with the loneliness and friendlessness of the impotent man; and the method adopted by the Lord to convey his grace, and the discussion that followed on that occasion touching the power of the Son of man to forgive sins, all suggest profoundly different circumstances. Nothing but the claim of the critic to be entirely superior to the document he is interpreting can account for so wild a conjecture.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9) The man was made whole.--The sufferer was known; the healing is in the striking form that none could gainsay.
