John 5:15

THE MESSAGE

The man went back and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. That is why the Jews were out to get Jesus—because he did this kind of thing on the Sabbath.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The man went and reported to the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

King James Version (1611)
The man departed, and tolde the Iewes that it was Iesus which had made him whole.

King James Version
The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole.

English Standard Version
The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him.

New American Standard Bible
The man went away, and informed the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

New Century Version
Then the man left and told his people that Jesus was the one who had made him well.

Amplified Bible
The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

Legacy Standard Bible
The man went away, and disclosed to the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

Berean Standard Bible
And the man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

Contemporary English Version
The man left and told the leaders that Jesus was the one who had healed him.

Complete Jewish Bible
The man went off and told the Judeans it was Yeshua who had healed him;

Darby Translation
The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

Easy-to-Read Version
Then the man left and went back to the Jews who questioned him. He told them that Jesus was the one who made him well.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The man departed and tolde the Iewes that it was Iesus, which had made him whole.

George Lamsa Translation
And the man went away and told the Jews, that it was Jesus who had healed him.

Good News Translation
Then the man left and told the Jewish authorities that it was Jesus who had healed him.

Lexham English Bible
The man went and reported to the Jews that Jesus was the one who made him well.

Literal Translation
The man went away and told the Jews that Jesus is the One making him well.

American Standard Version
The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him whole.

Bible in Basic English
The man went away and said to the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

Hebrew Names Version
The man went away, and told the Yehudim that it was Yeshua who had made him well.

International Standard Version
The man went off and told the Jews[fn] that it was Jesus who had made him well.

Etheridge Translation
And that man went away, and told the Jihudoyee, that it was Jeshu who had healed him.

Murdock Translation
And the man went and told the Jews, that it was Jesus who had cured him.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The man departed, & tolde the Iewes that it was Iesus which had made him whole.

English Revised Version
The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus which had made him whole.

World English Bible
The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
The man departed and told the Jews, that it was Jesus who had made him whole.

Weymouth's New Testament
The man went and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had restored him to health;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thilke man wente, and telde to the Jewis, that it was Jhesu that made hym hool.

Update Bible Version
The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him whole.

Webster's Bible Translation
The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him.

New English Translation
The man went away and informed the Jewish leaders that Jesus was the one who had made him well.

New King James Version
The man departed and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

New Living Translation
Then the man went and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had healed him.

New Life Bible
The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus Who had healed him.

New Revised Standard
The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The man went away, and told the Jews, that it was, Jesus, who had made him well.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The man went his way and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him whole.

Revised Standard Version
The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
The man departed and tolde ye Iewes that yt was Iesus whiche had made him whole.

Young's Literal Translation
The man went away, and told the Jews that it is Jesus who made him whole,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The ma departed, and tolde the Iewes, that it was Iesus, which had made hi whole.

Mace New Testament (1729)
then the man departed to acquaint the Jews, that it was Jesus who had cured him.

Simplified Cowboy Version
The man went back and told the leaders that it was Jesus who had healed him.

Contextual Overview

¹Soon another Feast came around and Jesus was back in Jerusalem. Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there was a pool, in Hebrew called Bethesda, with five alcoves. Hundreds of sick people—blind, crippled, paralyzed—were in these alcoves. One man had been an invalid there for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him stretched out by the pool and knew how long he had been there, he said, "Do you want to get well?" ⁷ The sick man said, "Sir, when the water is stirred, I don't have anybody to put me in the pool. By the time I get there, somebody else is already in." ⁸Jesus said, "Get up, take your bedroll, start walking." The man was healed on the spot. He picked up his bedroll and walked off. That day happened to be the Sabbath. The Jews stopped the healed man and said, "It's the Sabbath. You can't carry your bedroll around. It's against the rules." But he told them, "The man who made me well told me to. He said, ‘Take your bedroll and start walking.'" They asked, "Who gave you the order to take it up and start walking?" But the healed man didn't know, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd. A little later Jesus found him in the Temple and said, "You look wonderful! You're well! Don't return to a sinning life or something worse might happen." The man went back and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. That is why the Jews were out to get Jesus—because he did this kind of thing on the Sabbath. But Jesus defended himself. "My Father is working straight through, even on the Sabbath. So am I." That really set them off. The Jews were now not only out to expose him; they were out to kill him. Not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was calling God his own Father, putting himself on a level with God. So Jesus explained himself at length. "I'm telling you this straight. The Son can't independently do a thing, only what he sees the Father doing. What the Father does, the Son does. The Father loves the Son and includes him in everything he is doing. "But you haven't seen the half of it yet, for in the same way that the Father raises the dead and creates life, so does the Son. The Son gives life to anyone he chooses. Neither he nor the Father shuts anyone out. The Father handed all authority to judge over to the Son so that the Son will be honored equally with the Father. Anyone who dishonors the Son, dishonors the Father, for it was the Father's decision to put the Son in the place of honor. "It's urgent that you listen carefully to this: Anyone here who believes what I am saying right now and aligns himself with the Father, who has in fact put me in charge, has at this very moment the real, lasting life and is no longer condemned to be an outsider. This person has taken a giant step from the world of the dead to the world of the living. "It's urgent that you get this right: The time has arrived—I mean right now!—when dead men and women will hear the voice of the Son of God and, hearing, will come alive. Just as the Father has life in himself, he has conferred on the Son life in himself. And he has given him the authority, simply because he is the Son of Man, to decide and carry out matters of Judgment. "Don't act so surprised at all this. The time is coming when everyone dead and buried will hear his voice. Those who have lived the right way will walk out into a resurrection Life; those who have lived the wrong way, into a resurrection Judgment. "I can't do a solitary thing on my own: I listen, then I decide. You can trust my decision because I'm not out to get my own way but only to carry out orders. If I were simply speaking on my own account, it would be an empty, self-serving witness. But an independent witness confirms me, the most reliable Witness of all. Furthermore, you all saw and heard John, and he gave expert and reliable testimony about me, didn't he? "But my purpose is not to get your vote, and not to appeal to mere human testimony. I'm speaking to you this way so that you will be saved. John was a torch, blazing and bright, and you were glad enough to dance for an hour or so in his bright light. But the witness that really confirms me far exceeds John's witness. It's the work the Father gave me to complete. These very tasks, as I go about completing them, confirm that the Father, in fact, sent me. The Father who sent me, confirmed me. And you missed it. You never heard his voice, you never saw his appearance. There is nothing left in your memory of his Message because you do not take his Messenger seriously. "You have your heads in your Bibles constantly because you think you'll find eternal life there. But you miss the forest for the trees. These Scriptures are all about me! And here I am, standing right before you, and you aren't willing to receive from me the life you say you want. "I'm not interested in crowd approval. And do you know why? Because I know you and your crowds. I know that love, especially God's love, is not on your working agenda. I came with the authority of my Father, and you either dismiss me or avoid me. If another came, acting self-important, you would welcome him with open arms. How do you expect to get anywhere with God when you spend all your time jockeying for position with each other, ranking your rivals and ignoring God? "But don't think I'm going to accuse you before my Father. Moses, in whom you put so much stock, is your accuser. If you believed, really believed, what Moses said, you would believe me. He wrote of me. If you won't take seriously what he wrote, how can I expect you to take seriously what I speak?" ¹⁰Even on the Sabbath Soon another Feast came around and Jesus was back in Jerusalem. Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there was a pool, in Hebrew called Bethesda, with five alcoves. Hundreds of sick people—blind, crippled, paralyzed—were in these alcoves. One man had been an invalid there for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him stretched out by the pool and knew how long he had been there, he said, "Do you want to get well?" The sick man said, "Sir, when the water is stirred, I don't have anybody to put me in the pool. By the time I get there, somebody else is already in." Jesus said, "Get up, take your bedroll, start walking." The man was healed on the spot. He picked up his bedroll and walked off. That day happened to be the Sabbath. The Jews stopped the healed man and said, "It's the Sabbath. You can't carry your bedroll around. It's against the rules." ¹¹ But he told them, "The man who made me well told me to. He said, ‘Take your bedroll and start walking.'" ¹²They asked, "Who gave you the order to take it up and start walking?" But the healed man didn't know, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd. ¹⁴ A little later Jesus found him in the Temple and said, "You look wonderful! You're well! Don't return to a sinning life or something worse might happen." ¹⁵The man went back and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. That is why the Jews were out to get Jesus—because he did this kind of thing on the Sabbath.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and told: John 4:29, John 9:11, John 9:12, Mark 1:45

which: John 5:12, John 9:15, John 9:25, John 9:30, John 9:34

Reciprocal: Luke 13:14 - with John 11:46 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The man departed,.... From Christ, and from the temple, not through displeasure, or as resenting what was said to him, but as highly delighted that he had found his kind benefactor and physician; and went either to Bethesda, where the miracle was wrought, and where a multitude of people were, and where he might expect to find some of the persons that had questioned him about carrying his bed, and who it was that bid him do it; or rather to the sanhedrim; see John 5:33 compared with John 1:19;

and told the Jews; the members of that great council, the chief priests, "scribes", and elders, whose business it was to judge of a prophet, and of anyone that should set up for the Messiah:

that it was Jesus; of Nazareth, of whom so much talk was about his doctrines and miracles, and who was thought to be the Messiah:

which had made him whole; this he did, not out of any ill will to Christ, with any bad design upon him, to impeach and accuse him as a violator of the sabbath, for what he had said and done to him; for this would have been most ungrateful, and even barbarous, brutish, and diabolical; but with a good intention, that Jesus might have the glory of the cure, and that others of his fellow creatures in distress might know where, and from whom to have relief; and chiefly that the sanhedrim might be induced hereby to believe that Jesus was the Messiah, and to declare and patronize him as such: and that his end was good, is clear from this, that he does not say it was Jesus that bid him take up his bed and walk, which was what the Jews cavilled at, not caring to hear of the cure; but that made him whole: he observes the miracle to them with a grateful spirit, to the honour of his physician, and that he might be thought to be what he really was.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 5:15. The man departed, and told the Jews — He did not say it was Jesus who had ordered him to carry his bed, but it was Jesus who had cured him; and he left them to draw the inference, viz. That this Jesus must be the miraculous power of God.