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<p class="tab-1">We have in the gospels a faithful record of all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, <a class="bibleref" title="Acts.1.1" href="/passage/?search=Acts.1.1">Acts 1:1</a>. These two are interwoven, because what he taught explained what he did, and what he did confirmed what he taught. Accordingly, we have in this chapter a miracle and a sermon. I. The miracle was the cure of an impotent man that had been diseased thirty-eight years, with the circumstances of that cure, <a class="bibleref" title="John.5.1-John.5.16" href="/passage/?search=John.5.1-John.5.16">John 5:1-16</a>. II. The sermon was Christ’s vindication of himself before the sanhedrim, when he was prosecuted as a criminal for healing the man on the sabbath day, in which, 1. He asserts his authority as Messiah, and Mediator between God and man, <a class="bibleref" title="John.5.17-John.5.29" href="/passage/?search=John.5.17-John.5.29">John 5:17-29</a>. 2. He proves it by the testimony of his Father, of John Baptist, of his miracles, and of the scriptures of the Old Testament, and condemns the Jews for their unbelief, <a class="bibleref" title="John.5.30-John.5.47" href="/passage/?search=John.5.30-John.5.47">John 5:30-47</a>.</p>
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