John 5:14 NIV

The Pulpit Commentary - John 5:14

The Healer's warning. I. HE WHO WARNS HAS THE RIGHT TO SPEAK . It is not a mere stranger who comes up. He who speaks has rendered the greatest services to the man he addresses, and his warning for the future is based on his service in the past. So to speak, the healing would have been incomplete but for the giving of the warning. There are diseases the origin of which is not traceable; there are other diseases distinctly traceable to the evil doing of those who suffer from... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - John 5:14

Findeth him - Fell in with him, or saw him.In the temple - The man seems to have gone at once to the temple - perhaps a privilege of which he had been long deprived. They who are healed from sickness should seek the sanctuary of God and give him thanks for his mercy. Compare the notes at Isaiah 38:20. There is nothing more improper, when we are raised up from a bed of pain, than to forget God our benefactor, and neglect to praise him for his mercies.Thou art made whole - Jesus calls to his... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - John 5:14-16

John 5:14-16. 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, at any time, restored us to our health, we ought to attend him with solemn praises; and the sooner the better; while the sense of the mercy is fresh in our minds. Jesus, happening to be now in the temple, and meeting with the man, that he might render the mercy he had conferred on... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - John 5:1-29

IN JERUSALEM AGAIN46. Healing at Bethesda and its outcome (John 5:1-29)Jesus came from Galilee to Jerusalem for a Jewish religious festival. While there he visited a pool where many blind and crippled people hoped to find healing (John 5:1-5). One of the men asked Jesus for help, not to heal him (for he did not know who Jesus was) but to assist him into the pool. Jesus responded by healing him instantly (John 5:6-9). As the healing took place on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders were anxious to... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - John 5:14

Afterward = After these things. See note on John 5:1 . findeth . Compare John 9:35 . See App-176 . temple = the temple courts. See note on Matthew 23:16 . Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6 . art made = hast become. sin, &c. = continue no longer (Greek. meketi) in sin. sin. Greek. hamartano. App-128 . See John 9:24 , John 9:25 , John 9:31 , John 9:34 . App-176 . lest = in order that . . . not Greek. me. App-105 . come unto thee = happen to thee, or befall thee. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - John 5:14

Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and saith unto him, Behold, thou art made whole; sin no more, lest a worse thing befall thee.This explains the reason for Jesus' disappearance. He wanted a private interview with that man, sparing him the humiliation of having his sinful life exposed before all, a thing that would have been far less effective in the former cripple's case than what happened privately in the temple. Perhaps the man had gone there to praise God for his healing, but this... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - John 5:14

John 5:14. Jesus findeth him in the temple,— Jesus found the man in the temple, whither probably he repaired, to return thanks to God for his signal recovery; when, to render the mercy that he had bestowed upon him complete, our Lord took that opportunityto put him in mindof his having brought the distemper upon himself by his wicked courses; for he exhorts him to abstain from sinning for the future, lest some heavier judgment should be inflicted on him. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - John 5:14

14. findeth him in the temple—saying, perhaps, "I will go into Thy house with burnt offerings, I will pay my vows which my lips have uttered and my mouth hath spoken when I was in trouble" (Psalms 66:13; Psalms 66:14). Jesus, there Himself for His own ends, "findeth him there"—not all accidentally, be assured. sin no more, &c.—a glimpse this of the reckless life he had probably led before his thirty-eight years' infirmity had come upon him, and which not improbably had brought on, in the... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - John 5:10-18

2. The antagonism of the Jewish authorities 5:10-18More than once Jesus used His Sabbath activities to make the Jews consider who He was (cf. Matthew 12:1-14; Mark 2:23 to Mark 3:6; Luke 13:10-17; Luke 14:1-6). Here He wanted them to realize that He had the right to work on the Sabbath as His Father did. This is the first open hostility to Jesus that John recorded. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - John 5:14

Sometime shortly after that Jesus found the man in the temple precincts that stood south of the Bethesda Pool in Jerusalem. Evidently Jesus had been looking for him. He warned the man not to use his healing as an opportunity to participate in sin. If he did, worse consequences than his former ailment would befall him (cf. Acts 5:1-11; 1 Corinthians 11:30; 1 John 5:16). He may have had eternal damnation as well as immediate consequences in mind since the man showed no evidence of possessing... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - John 5:14

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - John 5:14

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - John 5:14-16

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - John 5:1-29

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - John 5:14

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - John 5:14

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - John 5:14

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - John 5:14

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - John 5:10-18

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - John 5:14

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