GET UP AND WALK (John 5)
John 5:2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five
covered colonnades. 3 Here a great
number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. 5 One who was there had been an invalid for
thirty-eight years.
II. Let Go of Excuses
6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this
condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?” 7 “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to
help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in,
someone else goes down ahead of me.”
III. Get Up and Walk
8 Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” 9 At once the man was cured; he picked up his
mat and walked.
IV. Expect Opposition
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;
the law forbids you to carry your mat.”
