⁸ Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.”^(A)

⁹ At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.

The day on which this took place was a Sabbath,^(A)

The Authority of the Son

¹⁶ So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him.