What Does John 5:10 Mean in the King James?
The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
They name the man as healed, yet their first objection is about what he carries.
THE MEANING
The speakers see a healed person and respond by disputing what he carries. Restoration is visible, but the movement that follows it is still being judged.
THE ROOT
τεθεραπευμένῳ
tethērapeumenō
GROWS FROM
θεραπ-
θεραπ- (therap-): attend to, serve, care for. The word belongs to a family where care and healing meet.
“cured” in this verse is tethērapeumenō. The Greek θεραπεύω (therapeuō) means to care for or treat, and can mean to heal. The form here presents the man as one who has been healed and remains in that result: the scene begins with care received, even as the speakers focus on his bed.
ALSO GROWS
therapeia: care, service, healing
θεραπεία
This branch keeps healing connected to care, rather than making it only a condition the man has reached.
therapōn: attendant, servant
θεράπων
This related word carries the root’s sense of attending to someone, revealing the care beneath the verse’s word for a healed person.
ἆραι
arai
GROWS FROM
αἰρ-
αἰρ- (air-): lift, raise, take up; in some compounds, take away or remove.
The verb behind “carry” is αἴρω (airō), which carries the concrete sense of lifting or taking up. The disputed act is not abstract: it is the man lifting the bed as he moves.
ALSO GROWS
epairō: lift up, raise
ἐπαίρω
This compound preserves the root’s lifting motion, making the bodily action in “carry” more visible.
exairō: take away, remove
ἐξαίρω
This compound extends the same lifting root toward removal, showing how αἴρω can describe taking something up and away.
THE PATTERN
Sabbath claims are tested against the rest and restoration they are meant to serve.
Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.THE THREAD
Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.The command “take up” uses αἴρω (airō, lift or take up), the same Greek verb behind “carry” in this verse. What Jesus tells the man to lift becomes the very act the speakers challenge.
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