¹¹ “I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.”

⁴¹ Jesus was indignant.^[a] He reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!”

⁶³ The Spirit gives life;^(A) the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit^[a] and life.

⁸ Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.”^{(A) 9} At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.

The day on which this took place was a Sabbath,^{(B) 10} and so the Jewish leaders^(C) said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.”^(D)