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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured,. It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed, He answered them, And he did answer them, too. It was a crushing answer.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk. That was his warrant. None but God could have made him whole. God can set aside any of his laws if he pleases; at any rate, whatever he commands, must be right.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then asked they him, What man is that which saith unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk? They asked, “What man” had given this command. Why, if it had been a mere man who had said it, the impotent man could not either have taken up his bed, or have walked!
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place. He never sought notoriety; but avoided popular demonstrations in his favor. The man who had been healed had exercised faith in Jesus, but he knew very little about him. A certain something in the air and mien of Christ had won his...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole; sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee. Probably, this man’s illness had been caused by sin. Christ bids him henceforth keep clear of sin, lest a worse calamity should come upon him.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole. Full of joy, full of delight, he must tell out the name of him who had cured him, as grateful patients like to sound the praises of their physician when he has been the means of healing them.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day. This was a mere pretense, an idle excuse for their enmity. They not only hated Christ; but they must besmear him with their calumnies, and make him out to be an evil-doer although he was goodness itself.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. The whole work of nature is continued on Sabbath-days as well as other days. Stars shine through the Sabbath-night, and the sun rises and sets on the Lord’s-day as on all the days of the week. God’s work continues. “My Father worketh,” saith Christ, “and I work.” “My work is my...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he had not only broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God. They did not understand him to preach Unitarianism; they understood him to proclaim his own true and proper Godhead, and he never contradicted them, for he was God.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then answered Jesus, and said unto them,.... They charged him with blasphemy for calling God his Father, and making himself equal to him: and his answer is so far from denying the thing, or observing any mistake, or misrepresentation of his words, that he allows the whole, and vindicates himself in so saying: verily verily, I say unto you; nothing...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. Christ’s work runs parallel with that of the Father. The Father and the Son ever work in perfect harmony with one another.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For the Father loveth the Son,.... As being his Son, his image, the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person; as being of the same nature, and having the same perfections, and so equal to him; [See comments on John 3:35]; and showeth him all things that himself doth; not as if he was ignorant of them, since he lies in the bosom...