Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Rise, take up thy bed, etc.—"Immediately" he did so. "He spake and it was done." The slinging of his portable couch over his shoulders was designed to show the perfection of the cure.
thirty and eight years—but not all that time at the pool. This was probably the most pitiable of all the cases, and therefore selected.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing John 5:8:
Acts 9:34
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