Biblia Todo Logo
Cross References
- Advertisements -




John 5:15

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

The man left and told the leaders that Jesus was the one who had healed him.

See the chapter Copy

12 Cross References  

The man talked about it so much and told so many people, that Jesus could no longer go openly into a town. He had to stay away from the towns, but people still came to him from everywhere.

The Jewish leaders in Jerusalem sent priests and temple helpers to ask John who he was. He told them plainly, “I am not the Messiah.”

“Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! Could he be the Messiah?”

When the Jewish leaders saw the man carrying his mat, they said to him, “This is the Sabbath! No one is allowed to carry a mat on the Sabbath.”

They asked him, “Who is this man that told you to pick up your mat and walk?”

They started making a lot of trouble for Jesus because he did things like this on the Sabbath.

Now the leaders wanted to kill Jesus for two reasons. First, he had broken the law of the Sabbath. But even worse, he had said that God was his Father, which made him equal with God.

They asked him how he was able to see, and he answered, “Jesus made some mud and smeared it on my eyes. Then after I washed it off, I could see.”

The man replied, “I don't know if he is a sinner or not. All I know is that I used to be blind, but now I can see!”

“How strange!” the man replied. “He healed my eyes, and yet you don't know where he comes from.

The leaders told the man, “You have been a sinner since the day you were born! Do you think you can teach us anything?” Then they said, “You can never come back into any of our meeting places!”




Follow us:

Advertisements


Advertisements