“And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place.”
Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, 'See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.' — Jesus' reappearance at the temple (the heart of Jewish religion) and his warning against sin suggests that physical healing is incomplete without spiritual transformation. The implication—that past sin caused the illness—reflects the thought-world of John's community but is not universalized.
Church Fathers on John 5:13
After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
The feast of Pentecost. Jesus always went up to Jerusalem at the time of the feasts, that it might be seen that He was not an enemy to, but an observer of, the Law. And it gave Him the opportunity of impressing the simple multitude by miracles and teaching: as great numbers used then to collect from the neighboring towns.
The pool by the sheep-market, is the place where the priest washed the animals that were going to be sacrificed.
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