John 5:15

Then the man went and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus that made him better.

Plain English Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

14Later on, Jesus found the man at God’s ceremony house, and he said to him, “Look, you are better now. So stop doing things that God says are wrong, or something worse might happen to you.”

16The leaders were angry with Jesus for making people better on the Jewish rest day, so they started to make trouble for him.

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Cross References

John 1:19The Jewish leaders in Jerusalem city sent some of the bosses of their ceremonies, and other men that helped in the Jewish ceremonies, to ask John some questions. They said to him, “Who are you?”

John 5:12The Jewish leaders asked him, “Who is this man that said, ‘Pick up your swag, and walk?’”

John 9:15The Pharisee mob asked the man, “How come you can see?” He said, “A man put mud on my eyes, and told me to go and wash them. So I did that, and straight away I could see.”

John 9:30The man said, “How can that be? He just made my eyes better. How come you don’t know where he comes from?

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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