1Ch 4:10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.
Do you want to be healed (Part 1)
"Do you want to be healed?"
The sick man answered, "I have no one to put me in the pool when the water is disturbed; and while I'm trying to get there, someone goes in ahead of me."
Yeshua said to him, "Get up, pick up your mat and walk!"
Immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his mat and walked.
Now that day was Shabbat, so the Judeans said to the man who had been healed, "It's Shabbat! It's against Torah for you to carry your mat!"
But he answered them, "The man who healed me -- he's the one who told me, `Pick up your mat and walk.'"
They asked him, "Who is the man who told you to pick it up and walk?" But the man who had been healed didn't know who it was, because Yeshua had slipped away into the crowd.
Afterwards Yeshua found him in the Temple court and said to him, "See, you are well! Now stop sinning, or something worse may happen to you!" The man went off and told the Judeans it was Yeshua who had healed him; and on account of this, the Judeans began harassing Yeshua because he did these things on Shabbat.
But he answered them, "My Father has been working until now, and I too am working."
This answer made the Judeans all the more intent on killing him -- not only was he breaking Shabbat; but also, by saying that God was his own Father, he was claiming equality with God. Therefore, Yeshua said this to them: "Yes, indeed! I tell you that the Son cannot do anything on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing; whatever the Father does, the Son does too."
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