Jer 17 21 so the jewish authorities told the man who had been healed this is a sabbath and it is against our law for you to carry your mat.
Get up pick your mat and walk.
He picked up his mat and walked.
I discoverd that the door has been open for a long time i didnt know because it was closed for as long as i remember.
Now this happened on the sabbath day.
Meditation hello sisters let me welcome you warmly to this 11th european conference under the theme a story to tell a call to act.
Then jesus said to him get up.
John 5 1 9 ceb i confess that i struggle with this passage primarily because i don t like the man very much.
The law forbids you to carry your mat.
Then jesus said to him get up.
8 then jesus said to him get up.
He picked up his mat and walked.
When jesus asked him do you want to get well the man responded there is no one to help me get in the water.
8 then jesus said to him get up.
Pick up your mat and walk immediately the man was well and he picked up his mat and walked.
8 jesus said to him get up pick up your mat and walk 9 immediately the man got well.
Jesus said to him get up pick up your mat and walk.
Jesus said to him get up.
The law forbids you to carry your mat.
One day i came across the scripture.
Pick up your mat and walk 9 at once the man was cured.
Pick up your mat and walk at once the man was cured.
While i am on my way someone else goes in before me 8 then jesus told him get up pick up your mat and walk.
Allow me to start by telling my personal story.
The reason i appreciate this specific story so much is that it unabashedly proclaims an embodied christianity.
Pick up your mat and walk at once the man was cured.
He picked up his mat and started walking.
Get up jesus told him pick up your mat and walk what does john 5 8 mean.
This official wanted healing for his son and was persistent in asking jesus for it.
A call for action true.
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.
Which is easier to say to the paralytic your sins are forgiven or to say rise pick up your mat and walk the man then rises up and walks away healed and changed forever.
Now that day was the sabbath.
Jesus granted the request but made the man prove out his own faith by leaving.
I was shocked i realised that this time is talking to me because i was the one reading.
The pool of bethesda 7 sir the invalid replied i have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred.
He picked up his mat and walked john 5 1 9.
Pick up your mat and walk 9 at once the man was cured.
9 immediately the man was made well and he picked up his mat and began to walk.
He picked up his mat and walked.