John 5:10
Ver. 10. The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured,.... When they saw him, either at the place, or as he walked through the streets, with his bed on his back:
it is the sabbath day: do not you know it? surely you forget yourself, or you would never be guilty of such an action as this;
it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed. It was forbid by the law, to carry any burden on the sabbath day; see Ne 13:15; for
"carrying out and bringing in anything, from one place to another, is said {x} to be work, and one of the principal works;''
and therefore forbid by the law, which says, "thou shall not do any work"; and one of the traditions of the elders is this {y},
"whoever carries anything out (i.e. on the sabbath day), whether in his right hand, or in his left, in his bosom, or wpytk le, "on his shoulder", is guilty; for so carried the Kohathites.''
And particularly it is said {z}, that
"he that rolls up a bed of the brasiers or tinkers (i.e. on the sabbath day) is bound to a sin offering.''
Which was a fold up bed, such as tinkers, and those that went from city to city to work, had; and who carried their beds with them, as the gloss observes; and were so far from being lawful to be carried by them, on the sabbath, that they might not fold them up.
{x} Maimon. Hilchot Sabbat, c. 12. sect. 6. {y} Misn. Sabbat, c. 10. sect. 3. {z} T. Bab. Sabbat, fol. 47. 1. & 138. 1.