Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you.”
Parallel translations
- WEB Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you.”
- KJV 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.
- BSB Afterward, Jesus found the man at the temple and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Stop sinning, or something worse may happen to you.”
- NKJV Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you.”
- NASB Afterward, Jesus *found him in the temple and said to him, “Behold, you have become well; do not sin anymore, so that nothing worse happens to you.”
- NLT But afterward Jesus found him in the Temple and told him, “Now you are well; so stop sinning, or something even worse may happen to you.”
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Jesus found the man in the temple and warned him to sin no more lest something worse happen. Physical healing points to a deeper call to repentance.
Overview
Jesus seeks the man out again, joining his bodily healing to a spiritual warning. While not all suffering results from specific sin, Jesus calls the man to a transformed life. The greater danger than physical illness is unrepented sin and its eternal consequences, from which Christ came to save.
Cross-references & the web
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- John 8:11She said, “No one, Lord.” Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more.”
- Lev 26:23–24“‘If by these things you won’t be reformed to me, but will walk contrary to me;
- Ps 118:18Yah has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death.
- Matt 12:45Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also to this evil generation.”
- Neh 9:28But after they had rest, they did evil again before you; therefore left you them in the hands of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them; yet when they returned, and cried to you, you heard from heaven; and many times you delivered them according to your mercies,
- Ps 107:20–22He sends his word, and heals them, and delivers them from their graves.
- Rev 2:21–23I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.
- Isa 38:20Yahweh will save me. Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in Yahweh’s house.
- Ps 27:6Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me; I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh.
- Lev 26:27“‘If you in spite of this won’t listen to me, but walk contrary to me;
- Mark 2:5Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”
- 2 Chr 28:22In the time of his distress, he trespassed yet more against Yahweh, this same king Ahaz.
- Ps 66:13–15I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. I will pay my vows to you,
- Ezra 9:13–14“After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,
- John 5:5A certain man was there, who had been sick for thirty-eight years.
- Ps 116:12–19What will I give to Yahweh for all his benefits toward me?
- Ps 9:13Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death;
- Lev 7:12If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mixed with oil.
- 1 Pet 4:3For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.
- Isa 38:22Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I will go up to Yahweh’s house?”
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