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John 5:14

New International Reader's Version

Later Jesus found him at the temple. Jesus said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning, or something worse may happen to you.”

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When King Ahaz was in trouble, he became even more unfaithful to the Lord.

“Then the people were enjoying peace and rest again. That’s when they did what you did not want them to do. Then you handed them over to their enemies. So their enemies ruled over them. When they cried out to you again, you heard them from heaven. You loved them very much. So you saved them time after time.

The Lord has really punished me. But he didn’t let me die.

I keep all his laws in mind. I haven’t turned away from his commands.

Then I will win the battle over my enemies who are all around me. At his holy tent I will offer my sacrifice with shouts of joy. I will sing and make music to the Lord.

Lord, see how badly my enemies treat me! Help me! Don’t let me go down to the gates of death!

“The Lord will save me. So we will sing and play music on stringed instruments. We will sing all the days of our lives in the Lord’s temple.”

At that time Hezekiah had asked, “What will the sign be to prove I’ll go up to the Lord’s temple?” That’s when the Lord had made the shadow go back ten steps.

The priest must look at the boil carefully. Suppose it seems to be under the skin. And suppose the hair in it has turned white. Then the priest must announce that the person is ‘unclean.’ A skin disease has broken out where the boil was.

“ ‘After all that, suppose you still do not listen to me. And suppose you continue to be my enemy.

“ ‘Suppose they offer a friendship offering to show they are thankful. Then together with the thank offering they must offer thick loaves of bread. They must make them without yeast. They must mix them with olive oil. Or they must offer thin loaves of bread made without yeast. They must spread olive oil on them. Or they must offer thick loaves of bread made out of the finest flour. They must add olive oil to it. They must work the flour and prepare it well.

Then the evil spirit goes and takes with it seven other spirits more evil than itself. They go in and live there. That person is worse off than before. That is how it will be with the evil people of today.”

Jesus saw their faith. So he said to the man, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”

The one who was healed had no idea who it was. Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

One person was there who had not been able to walk for 38 years.

“No one, sir,” she said. “Then I don’t find you guilty either,” Jesus said. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”

You have spent enough time in the past doing what ungodly people choose to do. You lived a wild life. You longed for evil things. You got drunk. You went to wild parties. You worshiped statues of gods, which the Lord hates.




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