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John 5:15
The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus which had made him whole.
The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus which had made him whole.
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,...
CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The Healing of the Impotent Man. (John 5:1 .)_ 2. The Opposition of the Jews. (John 5:10 .) 3. His Unity with the Father. (John 5:19 .) 4. The Present Hour. Believers Delivered from...
JOHN 5:9 _B_ - JOHN 5:15. THE CONFLICT WITH THE AUTHORITIES. With the man himself the Jews raise the question of bearing burdens on the Sabbath (_cf._ Jeremiah 17:21). The man's ignorance of who had h...
THE MAN DEPARTED, AND TOLD THE JEWS THAT IT WAS JESUS. The second time he saw him he learned that it was Jesus. The authorities had demanded to know who it was that told him to "carry his bed;" in ob...
It was Sabbath on that day. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured: "It is Sabbath and you have no right to lift your bed." He answered them: "He who made me well, it was he who said to me: 'L...
MAN'S HELPLESSNESS AND CHRIST'S POWER (John 5:1-9)...
_told the Jews_ Not in malice against Jesus, nor in any hope of converting His opponents. Neither of these is probable, nor is there the least evidence of either. Rather, he continues his defiance of...
John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. The Work We here enter on the second portion of the first main division of the Gospel, thus subdivided: The Work (1) among _Jews_, (2) among _Samaritans_, (3) among _Galilean...
ΤΟΙ͂Σ ἸΟΥΔΑΊΟΙΣ. See on John 1:19. Authorities differ as to whether εἶπεν or ἀνήγγειλεν is the verb. If the latter is correct, S. John perhaps intimates that the man’s announcement was virtually a pro...
THE SEQUEL OF THE SIGN ἮΝ ΔῈ ΣΆΒΒΑΤΟΝ. NOW ON THAT DAY WAS A SABBATH. This is the text for what follows. Jesus had proclaimed Himself Lord of the Temple (see on John 2:17); He now proclaims Himself Lo...
Ver 14. Afterward Jesus finds him in the temple, and said to him, Behold, you are made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come to you. 15. The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, wh...
_JESUS IS EQUAL WITH GOD -- JOHN 5:14-18:_ After Jesus healed the man He went into the Temple and found the man. He told him, "You are now well. But do not sin anymore or something worse might happen...
ΆΝΉΓΓΕΙΛΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΝΑΓΓΈΛΛΩ (G312) сообщать. Он сообщил властям имя Того, Кто исцелил его (BAGD). ΠΟΙΉΣΑΣ _aor. act. part., см._ John 5:11....
THE MAN DEPARTED, &C.— Overjoyed to have discovered the author of his cure, the man went away, and innocently informed the Jews of it; perhaps because he thought it his duty to give his benefactor the...
SABBATH CONTROVERSY _Text 5:10-18_ 10 So the Jews said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath, and it is not lawful for thee to take up thy bed. 11 But he answered them, He that made me whole...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 5:1-15 We begin with the usual Analysis:— "After this there was a feast of the Jews" (John 5:1). "After this" or, as it should be. "After these things," is an e...
The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole. THE MAN DEPARTED, AND TOLD THE JEWS THAT IT WAS JESUS WHICH HAD MADE HIM WHOLE - little thinking how unwelcome his...
10 The day on which the cure was effected indicates that its fulfillment will find place in that great sabbatism that remains for God's people of the Circumcision (Heb_4:9). As a pallet was a mere bun...
BETHESDA. CHRIST AND THE SABBATH 1-47. A miracle at the Pool of Bethesda on the Sabbath Day, and a controversy arising therefrom. This miracle may be regarded as a parable illustrating the deadly effe...
AND TOLD THE JEWS] doubtless to win honour for Jesus as a prophet and worker of miracles....
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 5 JESUS CURES A SICK MAN 5:1-15 V1 After this, Jesus went to *Jerusalem for another *Jewish *festival. V2 There was a p...
THE MAN DEPARTED, AND TOLD THE JEWS. — We are not told what reason underlay his report to the Jews. It is natural that he should give the answer which he could not give before (John 5:13), and that he...
CHAPTER 13 JESUS LIFE-GIVER AND JUDGE. “The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus which had made him whole. And for this cause did the Jews persecute Jesus, because He did these things o...
ἀπῆλθεν ὁ ἄνθρωπος. “The man went off and reported to the Jews that the person who healed him was Jesus. He had asked His name, and perhaps did not consider that in proclaiming it he was endangering h...
SABBATH WORK THAT PLEASES THE FATHER John 5:10-18 In the foregoing incident our Lord not only healed the sufferer after thirty-eight years of deferred hope, but did so on the Sabbath, and bade him ca...
It was at this time that the conflict between Christ and His enemies, which culminated in His Cross began. A miracle wrought on the Sabbath gave rise to this first outbreak. Throughout this chapter we...
CHAPTER 13 THE POOL OF BETHESDA John 5:1-47. _“After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.”_ You always find the phraseology in the Bible, _“Go up to Jerusalem.”...
“ _Afterward, Jesus finds him in the temple and said to him: Behold, thou art made whole; sin no more, lest a worse thing befall thee._ 15. _The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who h...
FIRST SECTION: 5:1-47. FIRST OUTBREAK OF HATRED IN JUDEA. 1. The miracle, occasion of the conflict: John 5:1-16; John 2. The discourse of Jesus, commentary and defense of the miracle: John 5:17-47....
SECOND PART: THE DEVELOPMENT OF UNBELIEF IN ISRAEL. 5:1- 12:50. UP to this point, decided faith and unbelief have been only exceptional phenomena; the masses have remained in a state of passive indiff...
The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus which had made him whole. (16) And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath...
The opening verses (John 1:1-18) introduce the most glorious subject which God Himself ever gave in employing the pen of man; not only the most glorious in point of theme, but in the profoundest point...
15._The man went away _Nothing was farther from his intention than to make Christ an object of their hatred, and nothing was farther from his expectation than that they would rage so furiously against...
chapter 5 contrasts the quickening power of Christ, the power and the right of giving life to the dead, with the powerlessness of legal ordinances. They required strength in the person that was to pro...
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...
The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole. Ver. 15. _Told the Jews_] Of a good intent, surely, to honour Christ, however it were taken by the spiteful Jews, _Pro...
_Afterward, Jesus findeth him in the temple_ The same day, probably, in which he was healed, whither, it is likely, he had repaired to return thanks to God for his signal recovery. Thus, when God has,...
AGAIN IN JERUSALEM: THE POOL OF BETHESDA (vs.1-15) Once more we find the Lord Jesus visiting Jerusalem, and as in Chapter 2:13 the feast is called "the Jews' Passover" rather than the Passover of Jeh...
10-16 Those eased of the punishment of sin, are in danger of returning to sin, when the terror and restraint are over, unless Divine grace dries up the fountain. The misery believers are made whole f...
It were very uncharitable to judge that this poor man went to the Jewish magistrates to inform against Christ, who had been so kind to him; and much more probable that he went in the simplicity of his...
John 5:15 man G444 departed G565 (G5627) and G2532 told G312 (G5656) Jews G2453 that G3754 was...
THE HEALING OF THE DISABLED MAN AT THE POOL (JOHN 5:1). When John recounts an incident in the life of Jesus we must always ask what it is intended to illustrate, for he always has a purpose in mind. H...
‘When therefore the people saw the sign which he did, they said, “This is truly the prophet who is to come into the world.”. Jesus, perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force t...
‘The man went away and told the Judaisers that it was Jesus who had made him whole.' This may suggest that he recognised that he was ‘in trouble' with the authorities and wanted to clear himself. He c...
With the beginning of this chapter we enter upon the fourth and leading division of the Gospel, extending to the close of chap. 12. Its object is to set Jesus forth in the height of His conflict with...
John 5:15. THE MAN WENT AWAY, AND TOLD THE JEWS THAT IT WAS JESUS WHICH HAD MADE HIM WHOLE. The Jews asked who had commanded him _to take up his bed._ The man's reply, given as soon as he had learnt t...
WENT AWAY AND TOLD (απηλθεν κα ειπεν). Both aorist active indicatives. Instead of giving heed to the warning of Jesus about his own sins he went off and told the Jews that now he knew who the man w...
John 5:1. _After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem._ For he had respect to the Law. As long as the Law lasted, Christ observed it. Oh, that we were as careful to obey...
CONTENTS: Healing of the man at the pool of Bethesda. Jesus answers the Jews. The four-fold witness to Jesus. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, infirm man, John the Baptist, Moses. CONCLUSION: Jesus Christ, th...
John 5:2. _Now there is at Jerusalem a pool, called Bethesda,_ which signifies a house of mercy, beneficence, or alms. The pool was situate at too great a distance from the temple to be a place for wa...
AND TOLD THE JEWISH AUTHORITIES. He knows who Jesus is now, but probably does not think he is doing the wrong thing by telling the authorities who had done this miracle to him....
_After this there was a feast of the Jews_ THE POOL OF BETHESDA, A TYPE OF FAVOURED LOCALITIES IN A RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY IN WHICH THE HIGHEST MIRACULOUS AID HAS NOT YET APPEARED The miraculous aid is...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 5:1 Chapters John 5:1 tell of escalating conflict between Jesus and the Jewish authorities. As Jesus defends his ministry, he cites several major witnesses on his behalf....
1-47 CHAPTER 5 _After these things,_ &c. Observe, John here omits many things which Christ did in Galilee, but which Matthew records from the 4th to the 12th chapter of his Gospel. For what Matthew...
_The man went away, and told_, &c. Not out of malevolence, but from gratitude, that he might not hide the author of so great a kindness. So Augustine, Chrysostom, and others. "He went away and told,...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ “Up to the present time our Lord has offered Himself to typical representatives of the whole Jewish race at Jerusalem, in Judæa, in Samaria, and in Galilee, in such a...
EXPOSITION Here commences the second division of the Gospel (John 5:1) II. THE CONFLICT WITH THE CHOSEN PEOPLE IN JERUSALEM, GALILEE, AND JERUSALEM, TO THE
Shall we turn in our Bibles to the fifth chapter of the gospel of John. John has just recorded in the fourth chapter the ministry of Jesus in the Galilee when He was at the city of Cana and the noblem...
John 4:29; John 5:12; John 9:11; John 9:12; John 9:15;...
Told [α ν η γ γ ε ι λ ε ν]. See on 4 25. The best texts, however, read eipen, said....
The man went and told the Jews, that it was Jesus who had made him whole — One might have expected, that when he had published the name of his benefactor, crowds would have thronged about Jesus, to ha...
After the man understood who his healer and benefactor was, he went and told the Jewish magistrates that it was Christ that had healed him. This he did, not with any evil design, no doubt, to inform a...