Scripture Post #667: *TAKE UP THY BED*

John 5:8: "Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk."

Disclaimer: The image used for this Scripture Post, in its original form, was from an image search engine. It is not an image of my own. 

The image used for this Scripture Post is to depict how the event in John 5:8 possibly looked, not to depict how JESUS looked. Research suggests that Jews wore their hair short, unless they were Nazarites. And JESUS was a Jew. Apostle Paul, also Jewish, wrote this: 1st Cor. 11:14: "Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?"

V. 15: "But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering." I don't believe JESUS looked as depicted in the photo used for this Scripture Post, because I don't believe JESUS had long hair. 

JESUS healed a handicapped man!

Context:

John 5:1: "After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem."

V. 2: "Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches."

V. 3: "In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water."

V. 4: "For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had."

V. 5: "And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years."

V. 6: "When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?"

V. 7: "The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me."

V. 8: "Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk."

V. 9: "And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath."

Originally Published: Fri. 7/11/14