5. Erat autem quidam homo ibi 5. And there was a certain man triginta et octo annos habens there, that had been eight and in infirmitate sua. thirty years under his infirmity. 6. Hunc cum vidisset Iesus 6. Him when Jesus had seen iacentem, et cognovisset quia lying, and knew that he had iam multum tempus haberet, been now a long time, he saith dicit ei: Vis sanus fieri? to him: Wilt thou be made whole? 7. Respondit ei languidus: 7. The infirm man answered Domini, hominem non habeo, ut, him: Sir, I have no man, when cum turbata fuerit aqua, the water is troubled, to put mittat me in piscinam: dum me into the pond. For whilst I venio enim ego, alius ante me am coming, another goeth down descendit. before me. 8. Dicit ei Iesus: Surge, 8. Jesus saith to him: Arise, tolle grabatum tuum, et take up thy bed, and walk. ambula. 9. Et statim sanus factus est 9. And immediately the man was homo ille: et sustulit made whole: and he took up his grabatum suum, et ambulabat. bed and walked. And it was the Erat autem sabbatum in die sabbath that day. illo. 5‐9. Christ speaks with and heals a man who had been thirty‐eight years ill (of paralysis or some similar disease, as would appear from verses 7‐8); and, to show how complete the cure was, perhaps also to give an occasion for the discourse which follows, He orders the man who has been cured to take up his bed and walk. It would be a rather severe trial of recovered strength to have to carry some of the beds of modern times; but that on which the poor paralytic had been resting was not cumbrous. It was probably only a carpet or mattress, or at most there was but a very light framework. In Acts v. 15, we find the term used in our text distinguished from κλίνη, which was rather the bed of the rich, more expensive and cumbrous. 10. Dicebant ergo Iudaei illi 10. The Jews therefore said to qui sanatus fuerat: Sabbatum him that was healed: It is the est, non licet tibi tollere sabbath, it is not lawful for grabatum tuum. thee to take up thy bed. 10. *It is not lawful.* See Exod. xx. 8; Jer. xvii. 21, 22. 11. Respondit eis: Qui me 11. He answered them: He that sanum fecit, ille mihi dixit: made me whole, he said to me: Tolle grabatum tuum, et Take up my bed, and walk. ambula. 11. The man appeals to the authority of Him who had cured him, who surely must be from God, and able to dispense in the Sabbath law.