“Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.”
The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. — the healed man's identification of Jesus to the authorities is not betrayal but witness. He now knows who healed him and testifies. This creates the circumstance for direct confrontation between Jesus and Jewish leadership.
Church Fathers on John 5:14
The man, when healed, did not proceed to the market place, or give himself up to pleasure or vain glory, but, which was a great mark of religion, went to the temple: Afterward Jesus finds him in the temple.
The Lord Jesus saw him both in the crowd, and in the temple. The impotent man does not recognize Jesus in the crowd; but in the temple, being a sacred place, he does.
For; if we would know our Maker’s grace, and attain to the sight of Him, we must avoid the crowd of evil thoughts and affections, convey ourselves out of the con
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