John 5:13

Now he who had been made well had no knowledge who it was, Jesus having gone away because of the number of people who were in that place.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place.

In Context

12Then they put to him the question: Who is the man who said to you, Take it up and go?

14After a time Jesus came across him in the Temple and said to him, See, you are well and strong; do no more sin for fear a worse thing comes to you.

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Cross References

Luke 24:31And then their eyes were open, and they had knowledge of him, but he went from their view.

John 14:9Jesus said to him, Philip, have I been with you all this time, and still you have no knowledge of me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. Why do you say, Let us see the Father?

Matthew Henry on John 5:2-17

The Cure at the Pool of Bethesda. 1 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. 3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. 4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of… Read the whole commentary →

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