John 5:12

12 So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?”

John 5:12 in Other Translations

12 Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?

12 They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take up your bed and walk'?"

12 “Who said such a thing as that?” they demanded.

12 They asked, "Who gave you the order to take it up and start walking?"

12 They asked him, Who is the man that said unto thee, Take up [thy bed], and walk?

12 The Jews asked him, "Who is the man who told you to pick it up and walk?"

12 "Who is this man who told you, 'Pick up [your bedroll] and walk?' " they asked.

12 They asked him, "Who is this fellow? Who told you to pick it up and walk?"

John 5:12 Meaning and 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 man too, for giving orders to transgress a tradition of the elders, though no mere man could work such a cure as this was. And so the Jews since, though they cannot find fault with the cure, which they put an "if" upon, yet are highly displeased with the order, to take up his bed and carry it:

``if (say they ^F1) he wrought a cure, lo, that is good, but why did he bid him take up his bed?''

the answer may be, to show that he was cured.

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 Vet. Nizzachon, p. 207.

John 5:12 In-Context

10 and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.”

11 But he replied, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’ ”

12 So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?”

13 The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

14 Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.”