He picked up his mat and walked.
Get up pick your mat and walk.
A call for action true.
Pick up your mat and walk at once the man was cured.
He picked up his mat and started walking.
He picked up his mat and walked.
The law forbids you to carry your mat.
One day i came across the scripture.
While i am on my way someone else goes in before me 8 then jesus told him get up pick up your mat and walk.
Then jesus said to him get up.
The pool of bethesda 7 sir the invalid replied i have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred.
8 jesus said to him get up pick up your mat and walk 9 immediately the man got well.
Get up jesus told him pick up your mat and walk what does john 5 8 mean.
Now this happened on the sabbath day.
Now that day was the sabbath.
Jer 17 21 so the jewish authorities told the man who had been healed this is a sabbath and it is against our law for you to carry your mat.
The day on which this took place was a sabbath 10 and so the jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed it is the sabbath.
John 5 1 9 ceb i confess that i struggle with this passage primarily because i don t like the man very much.
See verse text in john 4 46 54 jesus meets a man seeking a miracle.
I was shocked i realised that this time is talking to me because i was the one reading.
This official wanted healing for his son and was persistent in asking jesus for it.
Pick up your mat and walk 9 at once the man was cured.
8 then jesus said to him get up.
Then jesus said to him get up.
Jesus granted the request but made the man prove out his own faith by leaving.
Jesus said to him get up pick up your mat and walk.
He picked up his mat and walked.
The reason i appreciate this specific story so much is that it unabashedly proclaims an embodied christianity.
I discoverd that the door has been open for a long time i didnt know because it was closed for as long as i remember.
The law forbids you to carry your mat.
Which is easier to say to the paralytic your sins are forgiven or to say rise pick up your mat and walk the man then rises up and walks away healed and changed forever.
The day on which this took place was a sabbath 10 and so the jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed it is the sabbath.
Pick up your mat and walk at once the man was cured.
The day this happened was a sabbath 10 neh 13 19.
He picked up his mat and walked john 5 1 9.
Pick up your mat and walk 9 at once the man was cured.
Meditation hello sisters let me welcome you warmly to this 11th european conference under the theme a story to tell a call to act.
Allow me to start by telling my personal story.
8 then jesus said to him get up.
9 immediately the man was made well and he picked up his mat and began to walk.