John 5:14

Plain English Version

Later on, Jesus found the man at God’s ceremony house, and he said to him, “Look, you are better now. So stop doing things that God says are wrong, or something worse might happen to you.”

Cross References

Matthew 12:45

Then the bad spirit goes out and gets 7 other bad spirits that are worse than itself. And they all go into the person, and they live there. Then that person has more bad spirits than before, so that person is worse than before. Listen, I’m talking about you mob here today. You don’t listen to me, so you are worse now than you were before I came.” (We have not yet translated 12:46—13:23. You can read those stories and messages in Mark 3:31-35; 4:1-20.)

Mark 2:5

Jesus saw them do that, and so he knew that they really trusted him. Then Jesus said to the crippled man, “You know all the bad things you did? I say you are not guilty of those things, and God will not punish you.”

John 5:13

But the man didn’t know who made him better. There were a lot of people in that place, and Jesus had already left.

John 5:5

Jesus came to that pool, and there was a man lying there that couldn’t walk. He was crippled like that for 38 years.

John 8:11

The woman said, “None of them, sir.” Jesus said, “And I will not say that anyone has to punish you either. Go home, and, from now on, stop doing bad things.”

1 Peter 4:3

In the past you did lots of wrong things. You lived like people that didn’t know God. You just did whatever bad things you wanted to do. You slept with people that you were not married to, and you did with them what a husband and wife do together. You got drunk. You went to wild parties. You showed respect for statues that people made. That was really bad. But you don’t do those bad things now.