The carrying of a mat was considered a burden.
Carrying mat on sabbath.
That was their focus and they overlooked the miracle.
The man who made me well said to me pick up your mat and walk he replied.
Carrying a bed actually a sleeping mat or a bedroll was in fact a violation of the rabbis interpretation of the commandment against doing work or business on the sabbath.
He answered the man who made me well said to pick up your bed and walk formatted for white area where story copy appears.
Where is it forbidden to carry.
It is the sabbath.
The same day was the sabbath mr.
Toynard supposes that this miracle was wrought on the 11th of nisan the sabbath before the passover which was celebrated the 14th of nisan or 28th of march.
Now this happened on the sabbath day john 5 10 so the jews said to the man who had been healed this is the sabbath.
And so the jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed it is the sabbath.
It is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.
It is unlawful for you to carry your mat numbers 15 32 while the israelites were in the wilderness a man was found gathering wood on the sabbath day.
It was given by god to help his people be healthy by getting a full day s rest and he told moses to see to it that it happened.
After determining that it was jesus who had performed the healing and told the man to carry his mat they persecuted jesus and sought to kill him because he had done these things on the sabbath verse 16.
It is 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.
17 22 nor shall you carry out burdens from your houses on the sabbath day or do any work but you shall hallow the sabbath day as i commanded your fathers.
To be sure the sabbath was a serious issue in the law.
But it was the sabbath and carrying his mat was considered work and no work was allowed on the sabbath.
It was not a breaking of god s law of the sabbath but the human interpretation of god s law.
Immediately the man was made well and he picked up his mat and began to walk.
The law forbids you to carry your mat.
No one is allowed to carry a mat on the sabbath douay rheims bible the jews therefore said to him that was healed.
In fact isaiah 58 describes the sabbath as a day not for rest in general but of ceasing from our own work and doing god s work.
The jews therefore said unto him that was cured it is the sabbath day.
It is not lawful for you to carry your bed.
Guard yourselves for your own sake against carrying burdens on the sabbath day and bringing them through the gates of jerusalem.
But why did our lord command this man to carry his bed on the sabbath as the law prohibited all servile work and especially the carrying of burthens.
The law forbids you to carry your mat they warned him verse 10 niv.
Pharisees and jewish leaders stop the man whom jesus had healed at the pool and who was carrying his mat on the sabbath day.
However the biblical injunction is to refrain from secular work not to be idle.
Jer 17 21 thus said the yhwh.
Why are you carrying your mat on the sabbath.