John 5:10

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So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed,“It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat.”

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  • Jer 17:21 : 21 The LORD says,‘Be very careful if you value your lives! Do not carry any loads in through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day.
  • Luke 6:2 : 2 But some of the Pharisees said,“Why are you doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?”
  • Luke 13:14 : 14 But the president of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the crowd,“There are six days on which work should be done! So come and be healed on those days, and not on the Sabbath day.”
  • Neh 13:15-21 : 15 In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath, bringing in heaps of grain and loading them onto donkeys, along with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, and bringing them to Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them on the day that they sold these provisions. 16 The people from Tyre who lived there were bringing fish and all kinds of merchandise and were selling it on the Sabbath to the people of Judah– and in Jerusalem, of all places! 17 So I registered a complaint with the nobles of Judah, saying to them,“What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the Sabbath day? 18 Isn’t this the way your ancestors acted, causing our God to bring on them and on this city all this misfortune? And now you are causing even more wrath on Israel, profaning the Sabbath like this!” 19 When the evening shadows began to fall on the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I ordered the doors to be closed. I further directed that they were not to be opened until after the Sabbath. I positioned some of my young men at the gates so that no load could enter on the Sabbath day. 20 The traders and sellers of all kinds of merchandise spent the night outside Jerusalem once or twice. 21 But I warned them and said,“Why do you spend the night by the wall? If you repeat this, I will forcibly remove you!” From that time on they did not show up on the Sabbath.
  • Mark 2:24 : 24 So the Pharisees said to him,“Look, why are they doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?”
  • Mark 3:4 : 4 Then he said to them,“Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath, or evil, to save a life or destroy it?” But they were silent.
  • John 5:16 : 16 Responding to Jewish Leaders Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him.
  • John 9:16 : 16 Then some of the Pharisees began to say,“This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath.” But others said,“How can a man who is a sinner perform such miraculous signs?” Thus there was a division among them.
  • John 7:23 : 23 But if a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?
  • Luke 23:56 : 56 Then they returned and prepared aromatic spices and perfumes. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
  • Jer 17:27 : 27 But you must obey me and set the Sabbath day apart to me. You must not carry any loads in through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. If you disobey, I will set the gates of Jerusalem on fire. It will burn down all the fortified dwellings in Jerusalem and no one will be able to put it out.’”
  • Matt 12:2-8 : 2 But when the Pharisees saw this they said to him,“Look, your disciples are doing what is against the law to do on the Sabbath.” 3 He said to them,“Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry– 4 how he entered the house of God and they ate the sacred bread, which was against the law for him or his companions to eat, but only for the priests? 5 Or have you not read in the law that the priests in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are not guilty? 6 I tell you that something greater than the temple is here. 7 If you had known what this means:‘I want mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent. 8 For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”
  • Isa 58:13 : 13 You must observe the Sabbath rather than doing anything you please on my holy day. You must look forward to the Sabbath and treat the LORD’s holy day with respect. You must treat it with respect by refraining from your normal activities, and by refraining from your selfish pursuits and from making business deals.
  • Exod 20:8-9 : 8 “Remember the Sabbath day to set it apart as holy. 9 For six days you may labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God; on it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your cattle, or the resident foreigner who is in your gates. 11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, and he rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.
  • Exod 31:12-17 : 12 Sabbath Observance The LORD said to Moses, 13 “Tell the Israelites,‘Surely you must keep my Sabbaths, for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you. 14 So you must keep the Sabbath, for it is holy for you. Everyone who defiles it must surely be put to death; indeed, if anyone does any work on it, then that person will be cut off from among his people. 15 Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the LORD; anyone who does work on the Sabbath day must surely be put to death. 16 The Israelites must keep the Sabbath by observing the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant. 17 It is a sign between me and the Israelites forever; for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.’”

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  • John 5:5-9
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    5Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years.

    6When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized that the man had been disabled a long time already, he said to him,“Do you want to become well?”

    7The sick man answered him,“Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get into the water, someone else goes down there before me.”

    8Jesus said to him,“Stand up! Pick up your mat and walk.”

    9Immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his mat and started walking.(Now that day was a Sabbath.)

  • John 5:11-18
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    11But he answered them,“The man who made me well said to me,‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”

    12They asked him,“Who is the man who said to you,‘Pick up your mat and walk’?”

    13But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped out, since there was a crowd in that place.

    14After this Jesus found him at the temple and said to him,“Look, you have become well. Don’t sin any more, lest anything worse happen to you.”

    15The man went away and informed the Jewish leaders that Jesus was the one who had made him well.

    16Responding to Jewish Leaders Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him.

    17So he told them,“My Father is working until now, and I too am working.”

    18For this reason the Jewish leaders were trying even harder to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.

  • Mark 2:9-12
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    9Which is easier, to say to the paralytic,‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say,‘Stand up, take your stretcher, and walk’?

    10But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,”– he said to the paralytic–

    11“I tell you, stand up, take your stretcher, and go home.”

    12And immediately the man stood up, took his stretcher, and went out in front of them all. They were all amazed and glorified God, saying,“We have never seen anything like this!”

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    10A man was there who had a withered hand. And they asked Jesus,“Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?” so that they could accuse him.

    11He said to them,“Would not any one of you, if he had one sheep that fell into a pit on the Sabbath, take hold of it and lift it out?

  • Luke 14:3-5
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    3So Jesus asked the experts in religious law and the Pharisees,“Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?”

    4But they remained silent. So Jesus took hold of the man, healed him, and sent him away.

    5Then he said to them,“Which of you, if you have a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?”

  • 2But some of the Pharisees said,“Why are you doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?”

  • 14But the president of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the crowd,“There are six days on which work should be done! So come and be healed on those days, and not on the Sabbath day.”

  • 14(Now the day on which Jesus made the mud and caused him to see was a Sabbath.)

  • 24So the Pharisees said to him,“Look, why are they doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?”

  • 18Just then some men showed up, carrying a paralyzed man on a stretcher. They were trying to bring him in and place him before Jesus.

  • 2But when the Pharisees saw this they said to him,“Look, your disciples are doing what is against the law to do on the Sabbath.”

  • 7The experts in the law and the Pharisees watched Jesus closely to see if he would heal on the Sabbath, so that they could find a reason to accuse him.

  • 16Then some of the Pharisees began to say,“This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath.” But others said,“How can a man who is a sinner perform such miraculous signs?” Thus there was a division among them.

  • 2They watched Jesus closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they could accuse him.

  • 23But if a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

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    9Then Jesus said to them,“I ask you, is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil, to save a life or to destroy it?”

    10After looking around at them all, he said to the man,“Stretch out your hand.” The man did so, and his hand was restored.

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    5Which is easier, to say,‘Your sins are forgiven’ or to say,‘Stand up and walk’?

    6But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”– then he said to the paralytic–“Stand up, take your stretcher, and go home.”

  • 10Healing on the Sabbath Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath,

  • 5Then he said to them,“The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”

  • 4Then he said to them,“Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath, or evil, to save a life or destroy it?” But they were silent.

  • Luke 5:23-25
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    23Which is easier, to say,‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say,‘Stand up and walk’?

    24But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”– he said to the paralyzed man–“I tell you, stand up, take your stretcher and go home.”

    25Immediately he stood up before them, picked up the stretcher he had been lying on, and went home, glorifying God.

  • 9if we are being examined today for a good deed done to a sick man– by what means this man was healed–

  • 12Be careful to observe the Sabbath day just as the LORD your God has commanded you.

  • 22Do not carry any loads out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath day. But observe the Sabbath day as a day set apart to the LORD, as I commanded your ancestors.

  • 4When they were not able to bring him in because of the crowd, they removed the roof above Jesus. Then, after tearing it out, they lowered the stretcher the paralytic was lying on.

  • 13Then he said to the man,“Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out and it was restored, as healthy as the other.

  • 10So they asked him,“How then were you made to see?”

  • 27Then he said to them,“The Sabbath was made for people, not people for the Sabbath.

  • 31The Jewish leaders picked up rocks again to stone him to death.