OET interlinear YHN (JHN) 5:12

Section 5:1–18: Jesus healed a lame man by a pool on the Sabbath

In this section Jesus healed a lame man who was lying by a pool of water. Because Jesus healed him on a Sabbath day, the Jewish leaders became angry. They believed that healing a person was work and that Jews should not work on the Sabbath.

The man who was healed did not know who had healed him. Then Jesus met this man in the temple. He told him that he should not sin anymore. The healed man went to the Jewish leaders and told them that it was Jesus who had healed him.

Here are some other possibilities for a section heading:

Jesus healed a lame man on the Sabbath.

Jewish leaders criticized Jesus for healing a man on the holy/rest day.

Paragraph 5:9c–13b

The Jewish leaders met the man whom Jesus healed. He was carrying his sleeping mat. The leaders considered that to be work. They asked him why he was carrying his mat when the law said not to work on the Sabbath. He told them that the man who had healed him told him to carry his mat. The leaders asked who that was. The man did not know.

“Who is this man who told you to pick it up and walk?” they asked.

• So they asked him, “Who is the man who told you^(sing) to pick up your mat and walk?”

• Then the Jewish leaders asked him who had told him to walk home and carry his sleeping mat.

General Comment on 5:12b

This sentence includes an embedded quotation, a quotation inside another quotation. In some languages, it may be more natural to use indirect speech. For example:

“Who is the man who told you to carry your mat?” they asked.

They asked him who had told him to pick up his mat.