John 5:9

9. Took up… and walked With the command was given the gracious power of obedience. The man had to venture the volition, and the strength would be present, and the act would follow. So the sinner who is bidden to commit himself to Christ, need not wait for any compulsion or for any sensible moving of the Spirit. Let him do the deed, and the divine strength, the gracious ability, will he find within himself.

Same day… sabbath The prophet Jeremiah had commanded, “Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the Sabbath-day,” (John 17:21;) and the Jewish doctors interpreted this to forbid carrying the lightest weight. But the nature of the forbidden burdens appears from Nehemiah 13:15: “treading wine-presses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses,” etc.