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John 5:15

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus, the Christ;   Miracles;   Temple;   The Topic Concordance - Persecution;   Sabbath;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - John, gospel of;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Miracle;   Sabbath;   Sin Unto Death;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jesus Christ;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Diseases;   Hour;   John, the Gospel of;   Sabbath;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Jesus Christ;   Law;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Dates (2);   Death of Christ;   Dropsy;   Endurance;   Grace ;   Israel, Israelite;   Sabbath ;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Make;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for February 1;  

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

Contextual Overview

1 After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes. 3 In these lay many invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be made well?" The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; and while I am making my way, someone else steps down ahead of me." Jesus said to him, "Stand up, take your mat and walk." At once the man was made well, and he took up his mat and began to walk. Now that day was a sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "It is the sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your mat." But he answered them, "The man who made me well said to me, ‘Take up your mat and walk.'" They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take it up and walk'?" Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had disappeared in the crowd that was there. Later Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, "See, you have been made well! Do not sin any more, so that nothing worse happens to you." The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. Therefore the Jews started persecuting Jesus, because he was doing such things on the sabbath. But Jesus answered them, "My Father is still working, and I also am working." For this reason the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because he was not only breaking the sabbath, but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God. Jesus said to them, "Very truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise. The Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing; and he will show him greater works than these, so that you will be astonished. Indeed, just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes. The Father judges no one but has given all judgment to the Son, so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. Very truly, I tell you, anyone who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and does not come under judgment, but has passed from death to life. "Very truly, I tell you, the hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For just as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself; and he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man. Do not be astonished at this; for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice and will come out—those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation. "I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge; and my judgment is just, because I seek to do not my own will but the will of him who sent me. "If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true. There is another who testifies on my behalf, and I know that his testimony to me is true. You sent messengers to John, and he testified to the truth. Not that I accept such human testimony, but I say these things so that you may be saved. He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. But I have a testimony greater than John's. The works that the Father has given me to complete, the very works that I am doing, testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me. And the Father who sent me has himself testified on my behalf. You have never heard his voice or seen his form, and you do not have his word abiding in you, because you do not believe him whom he has sent. "You search the scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that testify on my behalf. 4 Yet you refuse to come to me to have life. I do not accept glory from human beings. But I know that you do not have the love of God in you. I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me; if another comes in his own name, you will accept him. How can you believe when you accept glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the one who alone is God? Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; your accuser is Moses, on whom you have set your hope. If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. But if you do not believe what he wrote, how will you believe what I say?" 5 One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be made well?" 7 The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; and while I am making my way, someone else steps down ahead of me." 8 Jesus said to him, "Stand up, take your mat and walk." 9 At once the man was made well, and he took up his mat and began to walk. Now that day was a sabbath. 10 So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "It is the sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your mat."

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

Cross-References

1 Chronicles 1:2
Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared;

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.


 
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