Then asked they him, What man is that who said unto you, Take up your bed, and walk?
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
Therefore they asked him, &c. Being indignant, they say with threats, "Who is that bold and insolent Prayer of Manasseh , who dare bid thee, contrary to the Law, carry thy bed upon the Sabbath day? Verily, that man is not of God who does not keep the Sabbath which God has ordained." Thus they spoke through a blind prejudice derived from this Law, which they did not understand. Whereas, on the contrary, they ought to have understood that He who had miraculously healed the sick Prayer of Manasseh , could not have done it except by the singular authority and help of God, and therefore that He had equally received from God the right to say on the Sabbath, Take up thy bed and walk.
