1. The Early Ministry & Selection of Disciples
Lesson 6

2. The Healing of the Infirm John 5:1-18
John 5:6 | Do you want to be made well?
Luke 13:10-16

3. Healing on the Sabbath John 5:9 – That day was the Sabbath
Deuteronomy 5:12-15
John 9:14
Luke 6:6-11
Luke 13:14-16

4. THE HEALING OF A MAN ON THE SABBATH
John 5:1-47
THE HEALING OF A MAN ON THE SABBATH
Jesus said to him:
“Arise” (Matthew 9:6)
“(Through the idea of collecting one’s faculties) to waken … i.e. rouse” (Strong). “To arouse from sleep, to awake” (Thayer). cf. Romans 13:11ff; Ephesians 5:14.
Elijah, 1 Kings 19 – “What are you doing here?”
The prodigal son, Luke 15:18 – “I will get up (arise, ASV).”
Don’t stay where you are and remain in your state of stupor and lethargy – Jeremiah 8:4; Proverbs 24:16
Don’t delay. Acts 22:16

5. THE HEALING OF A MAN ON THE SABBATH
John 5:1-47
THE HEALING OF A MAN ON THE SABBATH
Jesus said to him:
“Take up your pallet”
“To sail away (i.e. weigh anchor)” (Strong). “To take up as a yoke (Matthew 11:28); bear or carry as a burden (Matthew 27:32)” (Zodhiates)
Don’t leave it there so you can’t go back. Count the cost and make the sacrifices.

6. THE HEALING OF A MAN ON THE SABBATH
John 5:1-47
THE HEALING OF A MAN ON THE SABBATH
Jesus said to him:
“Walk”
Both literally and figuratively; “to tread all around … figuratively, to live, deport oneself, follow …” (Strong). “To regulate one’s life, to conduct oneself” (Thayer). “Signifying the whole round of the activities of the individual life …” (Vine).
He was to have a changed “walk.” Verse 14
Where will our walk take us? Romans 6:3-4; Ephesians 4:1, 17; 5:15; Colossians 1:10

7. THE HEALING OF A MAN ON THE SABBATH
John 5:1-47
THE HEALING OF A MAN ON THE SABBATH
The response:
“Immediately the man became well, and took up his pallet and began to walk”
Where did he immediately walk? Verse 14; Luke 17:5-10
The problem for the Jews who witnessed this?
“Now it was the Sabbath on that day.”

8. THE HEALING OF A MAN ON THE SABBATH
John 5:1-47
THE HEALING OF A MAN ON THE SABBATH
Later, Jesus meets the man he healed in the temple (why would Jesus find him there? Isaiah 38:19; Luke 17:15; Acts 3:7-8) and says to him:
“Behold you have become well; do not sin anymore so that nothing worse happens to you.”
The Mishnah provides a list of thirty-nine works forbidden on the Sabbath day. The list permits the carrying of a living man on a couch, since the couch itself is
considered secondary, i.e., it is regarded as essential to the man’s conveyance. But to carry the bed itself was not considered necessary, so was impermissible.
SABBATH
They had invented many prohibitions respecting the Sabbath of which we find nothing in the original institution. Some of these prohibitions were fantastic and arbitrary, in the number of those "heavy burdens and grievous to be borne" while the latter expounders of the law "laid on men's shoulders." Comp. Matt 12:1-13; John 5:10. That this perversion of the Sabbath had become very general in our Saviour's time is apparent both from the recorded objections to acts of his on that day and from his marked conduct on occasions to which those objections were sure to be urged. Matt 12:1-16; Mark 3:2; Luke 6:1-5; 13:10-17; John 6:2-18; 7:23; 9:1-34. Christ's words do not remit the duty of keeping the Sabbath, but only deliver it from the false methods of keeping which prevented it from bestowing upon men the spiritual blessings it was ordained to confer.
(from Smith's Bible Dictionary, PC Study Bible formatted electronic database Copyright © 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)

9. THE HEALING OF A MAN ON THE SABBATH
John 5:1-47
THE HEALING OF A MAN ON THE SABBATH
What did Jesus mean by this?
There is a fate worse than being an invalid in this life. 2 Thessalonians 1:9
He needed to lay aside his sinful practices and repent. John 8:11; 1 Corinthians 15:34; Ephesians 4:22