Then they asked him, “Who is the man who told you to pick up your mat and walk?”
Jesus went to the Temple, and while he was teaching there, the leading priests and the elders of the people came to him. They said, “What authority do you have to do these things? Who gave you this authority?”
But he answered, “The man who made me well told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’ ”
But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, because there were many people in that place, and Jesus had left.
I can say this about them: They really try to follow God, but they do not know the right way.
The men of the city asked each other, “Who did this?” After they asked many questions, someone told them, “Gideon son of Joash did this.”
Then Saul said to all the leaders of his army, “Come here. Let’s find out what sin has been done today.