John 5:9-18

Evangelical Heritage Version

⁹ Instantly the man was healed. He picked up his mat and walked.

That day was the Sabbath. ¹⁰ So the Jews told the man who had been healed, “This is the Sabbath! You are not permitted to carry your mat.”

¹¹ He answered them, “The one who made me well told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”

¹² Then they asked him, “Who is the man who told you, ‘Pick it up and walk’?” ¹³ But the man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

¹⁴ Later Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “Look, you are well now. Do not sin anymore so that nothing worse happens to you.”

¹⁵ The man went back and reported to the Jews that it was Jesus who made him well.

God’s Son

¹⁶ So the Jews began to persecute Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. ¹⁷ But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working right up to the present time, and I am working too.”

¹⁸ This is why the Jews tried all the more to kill him, because he was not merely breaking the Sabbath, but was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.