“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.”
Then Jesus said to him, 'Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.' — Jesus' command is abrupt, without the mediating ritual (the pool) the man expects. The Greek egeiro (get up) and perpateo (walk) are acts of resurrection; Jesus calls the man to a new mode of existence. The command assumes both divine authority and the man's capacity to obey.
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