Jn 5:11a ... But the one answered them, ... "The one who made me healthy, that one said to me, ..."

Verse 11 has 4 phrases containing 17 words. The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd phrases contain these 4 narrator and 7 dialog words ... Ho de apekrithē autois, Ho poiēsas me hugiē, ekeinos moi eipen (The-one but answered them, ... "The-one having-made me healthy, that-one to-me said, ...").

The first 4 narrator words are bottom up. The next 7 dialog words are top down. The man told the Jews he was cured by what Jesus said. It seems he is crafting a defense that he was compelled to raise his mat and walk around. His illness (the Unclean Spirit) was compelled to obey and so was he. The evidence implied God was working through Jesus.