John 5:11

ὁ ποιήσας. The man’s defiance of them in the first flush of his recovered health is very natural. He means, ‘if He could cure me of a sickness of 38 years, He had authority to tell me to take up my bed.’ They will not mention the cure; he flings it in their face. There is a higher law than that of the Sabbath, and higher authority than theirs. Comp. the conduct of the blind man, chap. 9. The attitude of both parties throughout is thoroughly natural.

ἐκεῖνος. Even He, with emphasis: S. John’s characteristic use of ἐκεῖνος; see on John 1:18, and comp. Mark 7:15; Mark 7:20; Romans 14:14.