John 5:12

English Standard Version

They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk'?"

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Who is this man who told you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk’

King James Version (1611)
Then asked they him, What man is that which said vnto thee, Take vp thy bed, and walke?

King James Version
Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?

New American Standard Bible
They asked him, "Who is the Man who said to you, 'Pick it up and walk'?"

New Century Version
Then they asked him, "Who is the man who told you to pick up your mat and walk?"

Amplified Bible
They asked him, "Who is the Man who told you, 'Pick up your pallet and walk'?"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Pick up your pallet and walk'?"

Legacy Standard Bible
They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk'?"

Berean Standard Bible
"Who is this man who told you to pick it up and walk?" they asked.

Contemporary English Version
They asked him, "Who is this man that told you to pick up your mat and walk?"

Complete Jewish Bible
They asked him, "Who is the man who told you to pick it up and walk?"

Darby Translation
They asked him [therefore], Who is the man who said to thee, Take up thy couch and walk?

Easy-to-Read Version
They asked him, "Who is the man who told you to pick up your mat and walk?"

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then asked they him, What man is that which said vnto thee, Take vp thy bed and walke?

George Lamsa Translation
And they asked him, Who is this man who said to you, Take up your quilt-bed, and walk?

Good News Translation
They asked him, "Who is the man who told you to do this?"

Lexham English Bible
So they asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk?'"

Literal Translation
Then they asked him, Who is the man who told you, Lift up your cot and walk?

American Standard Version
They asked him, Who is the man that said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?

Bible in Basic English
Then they put to him the question: Who is the man who said to you, Take it up and go?

Hebrew Names Version
Then they asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take up your mat, and walk'?"

International Standard Version
They asked him, "Who is the man who told you, 'Pick it up and walk'?"

Etheridge Translation
And they said to him, What man is this who told thee to take up thy bed, and walk ?

Murdock Translation
And they asked him: Who is the man that said to thee, Take up thy bed and walk?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then asked they hym: What man is that which sayde vnto thee, take vp thy bedde, and walke?

English Revised Version
They asked him, Who is the man that said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?

World English Bible
Then they asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take up your mat, and walk'?"

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Then asked they him, Who is the man that said to thee, Take up thy bed and walk?

Weymouth's New Testament
"Who is it," they asked, "that said to you, `Take up your mat and walk'?"

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor thei axiden him, What man `is that, that seide to thee, Take vp thi bed, and go?

Update Bible Version
They asked him, Who is the man that said to you, Take up [your bed], and walk?

Webster's Bible Translation
Then they asked him, What man is that who said to thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?

New English Translation
They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk'?"

New King James Version
Then they asked him, "Who is the Man who said to you, "Take up your bed and walk'?"

New Living Translation
"Who said such a thing as that?" they demanded.

New Life Bible
Then the Jews asked him, "What man said to you, ‘Pick up your bed and walk' ?"

New Revised Standard
They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take it up and walk'?"

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
They questioned him - Who is the man that said unto thee, Take up thy couch , and be walking?

Douay-Rheims Bible
They asked him therefore: Who is that man who said to thee: Take up thy bed and walk?

Revised Standard Version
They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take up your pallet, and walk'?"

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Then axed they him: what man is that which sayde vnto the take vp thy beed and walke.

Young's Literal Translation
they questioned him, then, `Who is the man who is saying to thee, Take up thy couch and be walking?'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then axed they him: What man is that, which sayde vnto the: Take vp thy bed, and go yi waye?

Mace New Testament (1729)
then they asked him, who is he that said to you take up your bed and walk?

THE MESSAGE
They asked, "Who gave you the order to take it up and start walking?" But the healed man didn't know, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd.

Simplified Cowboy Version
"What fellow told you that?" they shouted.

Contextual Overview

¹ After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ² Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. ³ In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be healed?" The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me." Jesus said to him, "Get up, take up your bed, and walk." And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed." But he answered them, "The man who healed me, that man said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and walk.' " They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk'?" Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place. Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, "See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you." The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him. And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. But Jesus answered them, "My Father is working until now, and I am working." This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God. So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise. For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. And greater works than these will he show him, so that you may marvel. For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will. For the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son, that all may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. "Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man. Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment. "I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me. If I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not true. There is another who bears witness about me, and I know that the testimony that he bears about me is true. You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth. Not that the testimony that I receive is from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved. He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. But the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father has sent me. And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen, and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe the one whom he has sent. You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, ⁴ yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life. I do not receive glory from people. But I know that you do not have the love of God within you. I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him. How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God? Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you: Moses, on whom you have set your hope. For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?" ⁵ One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. ⁶ When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be healed?" ⁷ The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me." ⁸ Jesus said to him, "Get up, take up your bed, and walk." ⁹ And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath. ¹⁰ So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

What: Judges 6:29, 1 Samuel 14:38, Matthew 21:23, Romans 10:2

Reciprocal: Luke 5:24 - power John 5:15 - which

Cross-References

Luke 3:37
the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 that, which they thought might be improved to his reproach and scandal; and they call him a man, as supposing him to be a mere man, and a wicked man too, for giving orders to transgress a tradition of the elders, though no mere man could work such a cure as this was. And so the Jews since, though they cannot find fault with the cure, which they put an "if" upon, yet are highly displeased with the order, to take up his bed and carry it:

"if (say they a) he wrought a cure, lo, that is good, but why did he bid him take up his bed?''

the answer may be, to show that he was cured.

a Vet. Nizzachon, p. 207.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

What man is he ... - In this verse there is a remarkable instance of the “perverseness” of men, of their want of candor, and of the manner in which they often look at a subject. Instead of looking at the miracle, and at the man’s statement of the manner in which he was healed, they look only at what they thought to be a violation of the law. They assumed it as certain that nothing could make his conduct, in carrying his bed on the Sabbath day, proper; and they meditated vengeance, not only on the man who was carrying his bed, but on him, also, who had told him to do it. Thus men often assume that a certain course or opinion is proper, and when anyone differs from them they look only at the difference, but not at the reasons for it. One great source of dispute among men is that they look only at the points in which they differ, but are unwilling to listen to the reasons why others do not believe as they do. It is always enough to condemn one in the eyes of a bigot that he differs from “him,” and he looks upon him who holds a different opinion, as the Jews did at this man, “as certainly wrong;” and such a bigot looks at the reasons why others differ from him just as the Jews did at the reason why this man bore his bed on the Sabbath - as not worth regarding or hearing, or as if they could not possibly be right.